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The Fun Chemical Thread - Mouse - 05-09-2025 There's a lot of real-life chemical compounds that do a lot of interesting things.  Some of them are in the game.  Most are not.  Here's a few that I think could be fun to play around with. 1. Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) - a colorless, odorless gas that is massively denser than air.  It can be used as a party trick akin to helium, only instead of making your voice high pitched it makes it lower.  You can also float a boat made of aluminum foil on it, but that wouldn't really work in game. 2. Titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) - a liquid that, on contact with humid air (which is most air), produces a lot of smoke.  And I mean a lot.  The smoke consists of titanium dioxide (a white pigment) and hydrochloric acid.  Yay!  As demonstrated here you can also soak things in it and have them smoke too! 3. Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) - produces a giant black serpentine shape when burned.  The reaction is extremely toxic, if the words "mercury" and the prefix "cyan" didn't tip you off. Any chemistry nerds here?  You probably know of a few fun ones. RE: The Fun Chemical Thread - Lefinch - 05-09-2025  CUBANE  C8H8 (They C me H8ing)  PROS I like cubane Cube Very good at storing energy due to all those H-Bonds BUT very stable H-Bonds (another reason it's horrible to make) Cubane is your FRIEND. It is not Azoazide it cannot hurt you. It wants to release energy (relatively) SLOWLY CONS Extremely hard to synthesise due to molecular geometry hating right angles. You can't just like, put 8u of Hydrogen and 8u of carbon together and go "hey look its Cubane" Broke my boy Explosions & Fire over a course of 3 years. How would we make it in game? Option one: Bromine (3) + Hydrogen (1) + Carbon (1) + Pentetic acid (1 >) -> (waste product that kills you) Cycling Pentetic Acid (3) + Nitric Acid (1) + Sulfuric acid (1) -> (waste product that offgasses and kills everyone) Broken Carbonicycle(1) + Lithium(1) + Dimethylamine (1) cooled to 80k  -> (waste product that looks like tar) Cutebane(1) + Potassium (6) + Hydrogen (6) + Chlorine (6) heated to 500kish - > A D6 dissolved in solution (1) + Holy water (6) -> Cubane (1) The other option: generates naturally in Engineers when the ptl is over 1PW. What would it do?  Doused onto SMES units/APCs/Cells: enhances their total capacity in the same way GHC does for pressure thresholds on pipes. Automatically gives the RD a (real) Diploma. If 200u is injected an Arcfiend we're absolutely all completely screwed.