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Drink it, I dare ya (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

From the third sentence in the wiki page:

It is, however, so extremely reactive that it is not encountered in everyday life.

So yeah, not at all stable.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it seems Wikipedia was wrong at least about the second half of that sentence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, most people won't buy this specific drink.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was about to say, you got way too many things that absolutely will bond with that with no hesitation. Thats a very unstable molecule.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I would thing the plastic lining in that container would probably be high on the bonding list, but I haven’t taken a chemistry class in 24 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

But wait, from further down:

It is stable enough to observe reactions with NO and NO2

We now have a lower and upper bound for its reactivity at least:

able to observe reactions with NO and NO2 ≤ Reactivity < encountered in everyday life