Setting Fire to Glass - The "Nope" Chemical That is Chlorine Trifluoride 

Today I Found Out Would it be possible to use this to completely burn the yukashima site.

+Today I Found out I really hope you didn't nit pick information. Example being "I'm a bomb technician. If you see me running try to catch up."

And by the way there is wa-ay more reactive substance which is also the most violent oxidizer and chemical with the highest yield of decomposition possible in chemistry which is FOOF dioxygen difluoride..And it even reacts with PTFE!!!

You put an image of carbon trifloride... come on guys

@@johnnywalker2947 well,I have made some SO3 not too long ago because I wanted to boost the wet ashing of a bunch of IC chips and that worked perfectly:I didn't even need to heat that up-SO3 made it not only dehydrating insanely rapidly but it also generated enough heat to make some of the oleum boiling off-and actually it oxidized most of the black carbon gunge to carbon dioxide which made my task even easier and also I obviously didn't lose any gold because it was immediately reduced back to metal by copper which also was in those IC chips..And the SO3 gas was quite trivial to make:I simply added phosphorus pentoxide to sulfuric acid and so it got dehydrated all the way to it's anhydryde which I pumped into the batch where I did the wet ashing..Certainly could put phosphorus pentoxide into that batch directly but I didn't want to have more reagents to care about and also because I calculated everything in the way in which I got a pure anhydrous H3PO4 in the other batch for further experiments..

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Sadly, it released airborne hydroflouric acid, which is highly toxic to EVERYTHING. It's kind of a pisser that the cleaning method is almost as bad as the problem.

Exactamundo'! Hahahahaha

It is actually NOT cleaning walls of nuclear power plants but membranes of 60s style membrane diffusion uranium enrichment plants... 😁

MZoe That actually makes more sense. Why would you have random uranium on the walls?

I got the reference! hahahaha

same

Noice!

now we know what active ingredient alien xenomorph blood has.

LOLOLOL

I saw that video!

Even the rubble burnt down.

lol, I had that in my mind the whole time watching this one xD

The fire was on fire!

lol 😂 and "this was an exciting discovery" Id imagine waking up sane with everything intact would be exciting after being close to 10 wiles of that stuff.

This stuff chews away at lightsabers

@@loudmouf9246 It was a joke...

@@bitonic589 The response was clearly a joke. A year old joke by the time you commented, in response to a 3 year old joke at that time. Don't be a nob.

@@alemirdikson oh I see now, I didn't see the joke at the time I commented. Thanks for being a totally decent and kind person.

oh god the floor is on fire...so is the fire extinguisher.

Caesium Fluoride is actually pretty stable (if a bit poisonous).

"Made in Britain"

It's kind of like what an experimental explosives company said after making a compound containing 14 nitrogens: "exciting"

Both Na and Cl can be pretty bad by themselves. So I will take your comment with a grain of salt.

+troodon9999 Probably good at removing your house as well

So good at removing it removes the concept of removal

well, no sink, no bacteria. gg izi

shune84 it's great at removing you whole street.

The whole town, maybe.

What else am I to use when I accidentally spill gasoline on my titanium car?

Fire is the ultimate cleanser

@@metaphysicalmadman8244 Doesn't do shit to prions though

Why is that surprising? Cleaning agents are basically chemicals that react w/ the things which they clean from surfaces. The reactivity of such a compound makes it, perhaps, the most versatile and efficient cleaning agents known. The obvious downside of these characteristics is it's dangerous and difficult to store. It's not like people are mopping their floors w/ it. It's used in an industrial context.

...and bomb, attempts... can't forget about the bombs.

Well, with all of that UF6, you can just send it to a reprocessing plant - oh yeah, they're all closed. :/

UF6 is great. That's how you make fuels.

This is how you get ninja turtles

Meanwhile, Sulphur Hexafluoride is fun to inhale so you can speak like a demon. Kinda funny how the 1 element can make another insanely dangerous, yet another can turn it into a kitten.

I can confirm.

lol Yeah, Hank's comedic timing is excellent when he says even the Nazis thought it too dangerous

their video was more entertaining.. they killed it. this one was great, but theirs was better

That comment blew me away.

Dey toog errr jiiiiibs!!!!!

Trek ooodoooo

See platinum hexafluoride. It's so strong of an oxidant, _it oxidizes oxygen._ Yup, that's right, it OXIDIZES OXYGEN. PtF6 + O2 = (O2)PtF6 (dioxygenyl hexafluoroplatinate) PtF6 + Xe = "XePtF6" (rather [XeF(XeF2)n]+ [PtF5(PtF6)n]-

@@californium-2526 after a quick Google search, it seems that xenon platinum hexafluoride can actually react with some noble gasses under certain conditions

@@xanderbackus447 it literally has xenon (a noble gas) in it

Most of the rest of the video is, too. There is very little information there that is not also in the book. And Clark is a much better writer than whoever did the video.

If they'd read the whole book, they'd know that ClF3 is indeed used in rockets. The standard rocket fuel mix for non cryogenic rockets (think Titan II) was a fuel of 50:50 JP1(essentially kerosene) and unsymetrical dimethyl hydrazine and an oxidiser of red fuming nitric acid mixed with about 30% ClF3 (with about half of a per cent hydrogen peroxide to stabilise the nitric acid) If you want to learn more about what can happen when that goes wrong, I highly recommend "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser (sp?) about the Damascus incident

@@bulwynkl Too cool.

The other thing to add to the description of "Ignition!"... at times, it's side-splittingly funny. The case of the bats in the bunker comes immediately to mind.

@@bulwynkl Thanks.

Zack Schmiesing and the dreams of small children!

Zack Schmiesing perhaps we discovered the cause of Instantaneous Combustion.

That's what I was thinking, he goes "glass sand *-PEOPLE-*

I thought that was part of the humor. I guess I'm a bad person.

Zack Schmiesing So did John Clarke in his book, though he only mentioned people with a specific job title.

It was a special one-time offer Billy getting killed and cremated at the same time.

😂😂😂

Brrrrrrilliant! Dissolve Fukujima, flush, walk away. Why didn't anybody think of it before?

Mark Harder No,no don't flush. Just let it sit.

... Yes.

It says something about uranium residue when you need to use one of the most dangerous substances in the world to get rid of it.

The only problem is that anyone downwind is at risk of exposure to airborne Hydroflouric Acid... which can kill you days/weeks later even if you clean it off and follow the exposure procedures. The cure is worse than the problem, considering how much land could be severely damaged in the process of "cleaning" places like Chernobyl/Fukushima with Chlorine Triflouride.

Note: test in an inconspicuous area first.

Billy Mays here!

Leave.

I mean, it also removes whatever the stain is on, but you can be sure the stain is gone. Wow, that rhymes.

Lady Macbeth shoulda triedfluoride. "Will nothing replace this hand?"

How much for a pound? I'll give you a nickel!

Everything about chemicals like this terrifies me more than all the horror movies ever made. Zombies can always eat my brains, velociraptors can hunt me down in packs, and vampires can prey upon me and drink my blood - but none of them can set fire to bedrock on contact, and none of them is worse than a cloud of HF. 💀

@@joshuakuehn Please remember to say hi to my Agent when you go to hang out with yours.

"There was once a spill of Chlorine Triflouride, and the only protocol was to run away, and check a weathervane while running to make sure you're not running downwind. Also, when personnel was finally able to approach the site of the spill, the Chlorine Triflouride had burned through several feet of cement... and there was no trace of the forklift that had been carrying the load that spilled." And I'm not joking. That's a paraphrased summary of a Chlorine Triflouride spill. It literally burned the forklift into nothing.

*Someone should Spray Jussie Smollett with it.*

Fun fact, but metal burns. It requires an intense heat and lots of oxygen reaching the surface area, but it'll burn. Since the chemical we just learned about is the Holy Grail of oxidizers, I'd say oxygen is present... Try lighting some steel wool on fire. It'll burn

This must be how there was a fire at a seaparks

That was Hank Green from SciShow. And that was hilarious.

Someone managed to create Chlorine Pentaflouride. Which is even more volatile that Chlorine Triflouride. There are very few substances that are more reactive.

antimatter does not exist, it's a lie

I don't know where you're getting that information from, but it's not a source that you should give much credit. One could be forgiven for having never seen antimatter, as the largest amounts ever created were just a few atoms, and it dissipates almost instantly. However, there is a strong scientific theory that at all times the universe creates a particle of antimatter and matter that quickly destroy each other. More to the point, we have literally created it in the lab dozens of times using the LHC. Saying there is no antimatter is like saying the Earth is flat; a most disappointing falsity picking up steam in recent years. You do not get to "believe" something exists in science for any reason other than, it does.

Before The Lightning: Then why do so many scientists believe theoretical models of global warming despite the reams of evidence of data tampering, computer models that don't even include water vapor or the sun that can't predict yesterday with known data, and evidence of greedy people positioning themselves to profit massively from Global Warming regulations? Oh, wait. Answered half of that myself. The other half, besides greed, is political power can be tied to Global Warming Legislation. Concern for the planet is after that, because Global Warmists would admit that per capita (the only actual fair measure of pollution production), the US is actually one of the best countries when it comes to pollution.

Okay... so that was significantly off the topic. Ignoring (for the moment) your allegation that Global Warming accepting individuals, and by extension, companies using Legislation to fraudulently profit from something that, you claim, is untrue. You are claiming this in disagreement to the myriad scientific paper, journals, and renowned scientists whom all support this with utter conviction. 95% of all scientific papers on the matter have shown extremely plausible data (sure-fire) supporting climate change based on Human interference in the environment. These interference including, but not limited to: unsustainable levels or carbon emissions, modern agricultural methods, and environmental destruction. Giving rise to unprecedented levels of green-house gases never seen before outside of planet-wide cataclysms in the far ancient past. Only about 5% of all the scientific population has even the slightest disagreement with the current models of Global Warming. I will not waste any more time than this arguing with those who believe Humans are infallible in our rule over Earth, or those who find the flashiest headline featured on FOX news and take it as scientific fact. I did not direct my earlier statement at yourself, or disagree with it in any way. Nor do I believe that you correctly understood what I meant when I said "You do not get to "believe" something exists in science for any reason other than, it does." What is meant by this statement still stands, as it does not care for, or condone the practice of applying belief to the art of scientific inquiry. Those who use a preexisting belief as weapon by which to deny hard-line scientific data are imbeciles pure and simple. I would rate your own belief on the corruption of Global Warming regulation or any disagreement you have with 95% of the scientific community, as such... imbecilic. If it just so happens that in the future your argument is the truthful one, then I will respect that and be glad that the Earth will not become difficult to inhabit. Until then almost all the data says otherwise. To reiterate, I will not respond to any future reply on this comment. I do not believe a debate will fix anything, due to a little known psychological phenomenon known as the Backfire Effect, to which we have already both played into.

It can even set Chlorine Triflouride on fire...

And is it as equally toxic or worse?

Somewhere a few parsecs past Coma Berenices, there is a region of empty space that has been continuously on fire since two seconds after the Big Bang. This is the result of a conversation about Israel/Palestine that culminated in what will be known beginning with its posting on 24 May 2021 as The Anti-Matter Reply. (Yes, I know this hasn't happened yet. Shh!)

@@ismailabdelirada9531 Hello from the future (4/27/21) I look forward to the Anti-Matter reply in a month.

John Dee: You missunderstand. ClF3 is just the cover up for the - REDACTED -

Nah, Safe. Containment is easy, just dangerous as all hell during a breach. That's why the Foundation stores it over another Safe class null gravity SCP in a room full of cold noble gas. They don't want a repeat of anything similar to #643,002 on the Things Dr. Bright is Not Allowed to Do list (the FOOF Boosted Race Car).

this stuff deserves its own object class

Sounds like something to try on 682

It honestly reminds me of the corrosive old man.

*stoff

Nope-Stoff

Kamelito Toe haha true

Enderchangling Thats better than Cilit Bang.

Stuff is English Stoff.

I can think of possible uses for radioactive sources, ion beams, and electron beams, in semiconductor fabrication, though I only know of "radioactive implant" machines for nuclear medicine. What purpose does this machine serve, or are you referring to radiotherapy?

Botulinum toxin type H is laughing at chlorine trifluoride

@@rorschacht8478 That will kill you, internally. This thing will fucking burn you and your ashes together. Scary stuff.

Ashaira Thermite is hellfire. ClF3 however is a tiny hell in every little molecule and everything it reacts to is Cerberus breath itself.

Simon wasn't entirely forthcoming with John D. Clark's summary of Chlorine Trifluoride. What he wrote was: "It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water - with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals - steel, copper, aluminum, etc. - because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."

All metal fires are based solved with running shoes (or lifeboats, in a nautical situation)

Hellfire _and_ Xenomorph blood rolled into one.

The technical term is "troll fire"

XD

I forget what that video was of the ice cream man eating himself...

7Ghos HAHAHAHAHAHAH

😂

That's not ice cream, it's mayonnaise

His book Ignition! cannot be recommended enough.

lol and not to make the stuff to have a accident to deal with in the first place.

The best way to deal with this chemical is not to use at for anything at all and pretend it doesn’t exist

Teflon blankets to reduce the amount of heat that is released, or liquified calcium to speed it up and get it over with.

Breaking News: A novice chemist has died in an intense house fire that didn't seem to go out

Except this pisshead is basically hell on earth and could actually kill everyone in there, rather than overestimate their brawn in a drunken dick measuring contest and end up having their nose broken by a marine, biker, athlete or otherwise physically superior individual.

No, this pisshead makes KRATOS blush, for that is how violent that a physical person embodiment of Chlorine Trifluoride would be, if its reactive nature were embodied as violence.

Also, "trying" is mostly the wrong word.

but that pisshead has the unpredictability of the joker, violent tendencies of Kratos, and corrodes things easier than school corrode my soul

You forgot about the gaseous byproducts that are fractionally worse than a case of the Taco Bell farts.

It would work just fine. It would dissolve any human bodies in tha room. Alas the show would have ended on this point....

Well, not necessarily dissolve you so much as turn your body into a loose bag of whitened skin, softened muscle, and liquefied bones. You'd definitely be dead though.

I hope you took some calcium gluconate as a precaution! HF does weird things to the calcium in your body, which F’s with your heart and can kill you - even in trace amounts.

@TheDerpy Kitty Nah you’d need piranha solution. Acid alone would just char and burn, but it wouldn’t fully dissolve anything. But you wouldn’t be able to ghetto-rig that shite, mate.

@@lashlarue7924 I am pretty sure you can actually "ghetto-rig" piranha solution... Exactly once.

Actually writing a sci fi story at the moment where alien dragoons ride into battle on dragons. This will do quite nicely

@John Dave holy cow a dual-chemical spray where both impact outside the mouth... 😨

you don't suffocate. The enviroment inside your lungs is wet enough to make it explode... Then thee is more water to react and you explode even more. Then your remains burn to ash and the ash burn to... dunno... meta-ash or something. Then it probably deletes all your social network accounts, rob your bank-account, take your girlfriend and makes it's escape to Mexico.

Chlorine Triflouride: Holy shit, this stuff not only burns concrete and asbestos, it also burned a forklift used to carry it to NOTHING during one spill.

You missed the best part of the story when a ton of it spilled: A bystander was quoted as saying, "The ground was on fire." That pretty much sums it up. Not something you say every day.

***** It'd sure be a more fun short life, though! Besides, something as simple as going home every day with all of your limbs and digits would be exciting working with that!

Micah Philson But fluorine is so much fun to play with!

Our joke was you could always tell fluorine chemists by counting their fingers.

Always fun reading the Fluorine Warning labels Especially the part that its dangerous combine with water and in case on ingestion you must consume water

nice. i can see u got an A in chemestry

So what happened to the people and animals?

@@wwondertwin People with bad respiratory issues immediately noticed the problem and couldn't safely go outside. People with skin problems noticed that they were itchier than normal and in pain. The people without any issues noticed that they felt kind of like the others, but not as bad. As of yet, no one and no animals died from the exposure or had any lasting problems from it.

@@RealRaynedance Where was this?

@@swedhgemoni8092 Philadelphia. It was the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery back in 2019.

Everyone was like "hope they enjoy their bones liquefying"

I just commented about the C and Cl bit, and now I saw what you wrote. You just couldn't let me feel like a smartass for a moment, did you?

10 perdec of all anoying comments are comments about percents of comments

David Ndiulor that C should be a Cl

1% of comments are joking that other hypergolic chemicals blush when they meet Chlorine Trifluoride.

Where is the I know this from the Book Ignition!

In many cases it does. Read up on the early history of fluorine experiments and the number of people who died or were severely injured.

@@Michael75579 and to the man who finally isolated fluorine, he was given the Nobel prize

As far as I know, fluorine etched glass is the one thing that stuff won't react with, the storage vessels were lined with that. You'd then have to assume that the lab equipment to make stuff was either also like with that etched glass, or that the lab equipment was quickly consumed. The only other option would be of you could control it by magnetic field like in a tokamak reactor, amd tou know they didn't have that technology back in WW2.

@Joe Smith There's one BIG issue with yur theory. CIF3 does not react with steel...

@Joe Smith It is only dependant on what it oxidizes. It can burn well over 2000 c.

@@AB-80X it does... if the steel isn't coated with fluorine

Yes. Adele knows chemistry

That's right!

Mike Blais Also, It should be T-shaped.

The people who care already know that. The people who don't know need not know, since they probably don't care anyway. But i doubt you posted that to educate anyone...

apolon_psy The people who know know it's wrong, the people who don't now think it's right.

Quintinohthree This is a popular youtube video about a curious chemical, not a research paper on a reaction mechanism. And as such, the video is great! And in my humble opinion, if you are a chemist you better know how to spell your chlorine. But if you are anything like the intended audience of this clip (it was made for the general public: a housewife, a lawyer or a psychologyst) then neither do you care nor does it make a substantial difference in your life whether chlorine's symbol is written correctly. It seems like you guys are missing the big picture. While you are both correct as far as chemistry, your remarks are useless to the viewers and the message of this video. You are knit picking on insignificant details. Are you trying to prove to yourself that you are smart by pointing out others' mistakes?? Do you really think its worth it for the poster to spend the time to edit the whole video to add the missing L? Who cares if its really T-shaped? We are not doing molecular symmetry here. Get some empathy in yourselves!

Thankfully, when Rocketdyne was working on its tripropellent engine, somehow they forgot about ClF3... or someone nixed it. The pure Fluorine oxidizer was bad enough.

That really bothered me too

Yes, bad research to use "C" as the chemical symbol for chlorine. "C" means carbon, and "Cl" chlorine. And a request: since fluorine is chemically so vigorous, please tell how it is isolated.

One of the first Nobel prizes was awarded to Henri Moissan who finally figured out how to do it. Chemists before him actually died in the attempts. Finally isolated in 1886 his work was interrupted four times by serious poisoning caused by the element he was pursuing. Moissan isolated fluorine by electrolysis of dry potassium hydrogen fluoride and anhydrous hydrofluoric acid. The electrodes were made of Platinum (known as a noble metal for the difficult of it reacting with anything) and done at a low temperature.

This stuff is so volatile that even displaying the formula in a RU-vid video is enough to achieve ignition. It was surely an act of kindness.

Much of the phrasing of this video is plagiarized 1:1 from Derek Lowe's "Things I don't work with" post on Chlorine Triflouride. Really quite shocked by that.

CyberiusT I love that blog by Derek Lowe

it's worse. it literally vaporized the forklift that was carrying the tank that spilled in that warehouse incident. totally gone, not even ash or anything left of it. that's on top of burning through feet of concrete.

Greek fire is basically ancient napalm - petroleum mixed with resin. It's comparing a party-cracker with a blockbuster-bomb.

very small amounts of it.

JonnesTT you don't

Use just a little and when it's worn out, repair the damaged surfaces.

You puff in small amounts of it in gaseous form. The goal of "cleaning" semiconductor equipment is not to scrub stains or something like that; it is to eliminate oils and other compounds that would vaporize and "out-gas" under vacuum conditions. Semiconductor vacuum equipment is almost universally made of stainless steel, so it can stand up to the ClF3 in the small amounts used - a bit of corrosion on the surface won't affect the process of sputtering or whatever the chamber is used for; vaporizing chemicals such as machining oils or welding flux used to build the chamber in the first place are far more damaging to the chips you are trying to make. Most clean lines use chemical solvents, but for very sensitive chambers and components this dangerous stuff is ideal.

Yea I saw that video a while ago. I first learned of the chemical from chemistry class in college

That's still my all-time favorite scishow episode, and I show it to people all the time! This is definitely my favorite chemical, even as a chem student, because of scishow. I want to work with Fluorine compounds almost entirely because of ClF3, and that because of that video!

"The concrete was on fire!"

+Micah Philson It is my favorite episode too! I also really like the one on kinesin.

Ciroluiro I really like the one where he went over every common type of artificial sweetener, its history, and its effects when consumed. That one was super helpful and interesting, especially since you see all of those every time you go out to eat.

it will probably leave a bigger stain. or a hole.

+Reno A hole where your house used to be when it burns through the cooker, your floor, and 3 feet of earth before igniting the gas line haha

Nope, but it can remove your cooker ;)

it will leave a 3 foot hole where the cooker was but the stain will be untouched

In this instance, I think you'll find that "cooker hob" is a phallic euphemism. And, the answer is - _no,_ it will not remove the stain on your, uh, "cooker hob" (at least, not without removing your, uh, "cooker hob" itself).

LMAO, nice catch

yet

Chlorine Triflouride. So dangerous even showing a proper picture of the chemical formula might cause a strong oxidizing reaction. Simon was just looking out for us, the viewer. ;)

@izphuzzy No thats CHF3

I hope you've also checked out Explosions&Fire if you're into hefty reactions.

He failed chemistry...

Nekros Halogens want to be oxygen, and fluorine mocks.

Nekros It isn't at all misleading. It oxidizes other atoms by taking their electrons.

Nekros Just remember the acronym OILRIG - Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain (of electrons)

ChayD I am aware of this.

Rusting

Except it does just kill you if you look at it wrong, given how sensitive it is.

@@rykehuss3435 At least it kills only you (and the hapless guys around you) and doesn't set the building including the fire extinguishers on fire. And god beware if the sprinkler system kicks in....

it was by the sci show. i remember it being the first on the list. .

Anton Helsgaun that's funny. Thanks for pointing it out.

Almost missed it hahahaha 🍄💋🍄💋🍄

Yup

1 part chlorine trifluoride, 1 part tequila, 1 part tobasco sauce. Serve shaken in a martini glass with an eyeball garnish on a burning red umbrella pick.

Won't work, it will set the glass on fire.

its ok it will match the atmosphere

Add in some FOOF (dioxygen diflouride), also known as Satan's Kimchi. That would be the garnish.

You've failed to show us a Chlorine Trifluoride incident in a movie.

You fucked up the ninja turtles.

See that ninja turtles comment.......that.

Fucked up Pearl Harbor too, if I'm not mistaken.

hahaha

Ha, yeah looks like a typo.

What isotopes have to do with electron bonds? Apart for clearly being a typo, it could easily being a carbocation: [CF3 +] surely not stable, but as an intermediate it's as real as you and me.

@TheDerpy Kitty Depends on the isotope content. If it's mostly U-235 or U-232, it's going to be pretty radioactive.

@@caav56 We're talking about a nuclear powerplant, it's definitely gonna have a lot of U-235 in it. The more radioactive it is, the more fissile and efficient it would be for the reactor.

Substance NEIN

"NEIN-Stoff"

You're completely right

A typo that slipped through it seems.

Wow, you're right, I didn't know that at first but that is pretty sloppy there

Borstian I was just getting ready to check his ass!! If what this poster says is right that is.. if he's full of shit I'm just kidding. Thank you and goodnight.

Thanks "Correction Guy #7010"

LFTRnow such an original comment. I bet no one has pointed that out before. Oh wait...

Sorry if you or others already did. I looked though several comments then quit scrolling.

So ... fill 35 suitably-treated standard 1 t cargo cannisters with the stuff, load them into your Cobra Mk III, get in the Death Star's way, face towards it, dump your cargo, turn away and push the throttle all the way to 0.3c?

2randomcrap3 until one missfires and wipes your whole side out or worse again your sides weapons cache gets popped with a direct hit from the enemy , no amount of solphodine is ever going to sort that headache out he 🤕 🔥🚀

Now that's an interesting premise. Forgetting all the safety hazards in getting it into space and assuming you did. It would not need oxygen to burn it's target. However, what temperature would it freeze at? If water or ice are combined on impact would it now explode? And on the down side, would not the substance and it's deadly byproduct gases remain in space ..... forever? Kind of like a minefield in space just waiting for an object to come into contact with it. Sorry Jean Luc, but the saucer section and starboard nacelle are....... gone sir. Scotty, " Aye captain, I cana change the laws of chemistry, but the ship is being eaten by this beastie and I cana stop it. Oooh, my poor wee barins " Bones - " dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a chemist !!!" Spock - " fascinating, a self oxidizing space blob " Data - it is highly unlikely the ship will survive contact with the compound. And your query as to holding it in a transporter diagnostic cycle is just stupid, even from you commander Riker, as it would destroy all elements of the transporter system as it passed thru them leaving it to now be burning and destroying the Enterprise from the inside. The more curious question should be... what happens to chlorine trifloride when it comes in contact with itself ? " Counselor Troi - " captain, I'm sensing a feeling of being scared shitless within the crew, and you wondering if you and your yeoman could make it to the captain's yacht without being noticed " Picard - " fine counselor, thank you, I'm aah aah just going to make it so.......Bye "

I bet a "nat 1" on this one would be specatcular.