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This is a link post Ignition!
An excellent and highly amusing history of rocket fuels.
 (I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 25 Feb 2015, 20:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post The first chapter is great.
A million ways to die.
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Wed 25 Feb 2015, 21:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post The section on ClF3 is a classic.

(tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Wed 25 Feb 2015, 21:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post Beautiful yet terrible stuff.

(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 26 Feb 2015, 0:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post As I've said before
You have to respect any compound that can set fire to a wet brick.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 10:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Highly recommended reading.
Contains some wonderfully dry descriptions of things going catastrophically wrong.

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"The odor of these was not so much skunk-like as garlicky,
the epitome and concentrate of all the back doors of all the bad Greek
restaurants in all the world. And finally he surpassed himself with
something that had a dimethylamino group attached to a mercaptan
sulfur, and whose odor can't, with all the resources of the English
language, even be described. It also drew flies."
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 25 Feb 2015, 21:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a wonderful level of sarcasm in that book.
I wish I had a print copy, but they're very sought-after.
 (I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 26 Feb 2015, 0:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'll have to read this.

(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 26 Feb 2015, 0:40, , Reply)