Whenever we
hear the word ‘chemical’, we imagine of acid eating metals or corrosive alkali
which burns our skin or colorful liquids in test-tubes. Most of us pretty much
know by instinct that we should be careful in chemistry lab as there are
sulphuric acid, nitric acid and many other chemicals which can give you painful
chemical burn. But most of us have no idea how the most dangerous most
hazardous chemicals are. You probably haven’t seen those chemicals in real life
and after reading this you would wish that you never come close to them.
The list of
most dangerous chemicals consist of chemical which can blow you into pieces if
you just touch it or kill you instantly if you just inhale it or it can burn
down everything or eat through glass, concrete as if they are cotton candy. Few
of them are so dangerous that no scientists want them in his lab.
RMX
It belongs
to same family as RDX but much stronger than it. RMX is heavily used in C4
devices and missiles. It’s heck of an explosive.
Azidoazide Azide:
It was
first produced in a German lab during a US-German project to produce high
energy compound. It is little too high. German scientist reported that
sensitivity of this compound is beyond measurement. It explodes if you touch
it, move it, expose to bright light or heat or just do nothing. So, in
conclusion, no matter what they do, it is going to explode.
Its
molecule has 14 nitrogen atoms bonding with each-other through single bond or
double bond. So, all nitrogen atoms want to attain the most stable state i.e.
triple bond with another nitrogen atom. Hence, molecules are so unstable.
Fluroantimonic acid: the Super Acid
It is the
most corrosive acid which eats through glass, concrete as if those are cotton
candies.
How dangerous it is:
·
It
explodes when it comes in contact of water and produce tremendous amount of
heat.
·
Evolves
highly toxic vapors.
·
Fluoroantimonic
acid is 2×1019 (20 quintillion) times stronger than 100% sulfuric acid.
Fluoroantimonic acid has a H0 (Hammett acidity function) value of
-31.3.
·
Dissolves
glass and many other materials and protonates nearly all organic compounds (such
as everything in your body, it can even burn through your bones). This acid is
stores in PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) containers.
If you have
fascination for acid, it is highly recommended for you to ignore this fellow.
Chlorine Trifluoride: The most inflammable substance:
It can burn almost
everything, even things which are not considered burnable like stone, brick,
sand, asbestos etc. Chlorine
trifluoride's fluorination and oxidation power surpasses the oxidizing power of
oxygen. The fire it produced which is a fluronine fire can’t be extinguished by
general fire control or suppression system fire-brigade use. Means once it
starts burning it wouldn’t stop until turn everything to ash. During World War
II, Germans were planning to produce 90 ton of it per month to melt enemy
bunkers but in the end, this dangerous fire-child made even Nazis scared.
Dimethyl Cadmium: Pretty much most toxic element:
Few microgram of this
compound in a cubic metre of air exceed the safety limit.
We know that cyanide
is an assassin. Let us compare this fellow to cyanide. Fatal dose of
cyanide is 1.5mg/kg body weight, means almost 100 mg potassium cyanide is required to
kill a 70kg person. But few mg of dimethyl cadmium is enough to
kill you. It get dissolved in blood quickly and travels to blood-rich organs
like heart, kidney, lungs and damage them. If you manage to survive that it
will bring you down with cancer. Cyanide works faster. Fatal cyanide dose kills in 10-15 sec but dimethyl cadmium takes much longer than that. You will be fine if cyanide dose is much lesser than its fatal dose as their is antidote. But one way or another, dimethyl cadmium will kill for
sure and nothing can stop it and not 100 mg, 1 mg is suffice for that task.
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