[AR] Re: Nitrating C60
- From: Bill Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:49:02 -0700
And if one hydrogenated the remaining vertices, one might knock down the
exhaust gas molecular weight.... Still, there seem more likely opportunities.
Bill
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On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 03:04:49PM -0700, Bill Claybaugh wrote:
>> Another HEDM....
>>
>> http://m.phys.org/_news344756717.html?google_editors_picks=true
>
> Highly energetic dubious material?
>
> (The article just describes computer simulations, not any actual
> material being made; and simulating chemical reactions is very far
> from being a solved problem. The basic difficulty is that when you
> have N electrons, you have a 3N-dimensional Schroedinger equation to
> solve. The high dimensionality kills any attempt at a direct
> solution, pushing people into dubious approximations which make
> computational fluid dynamics look like a paragon of accuracy.)
>
> That said, C60 plus twelve nitro groups is probably easier to make
> than octanitrocubane, which has a NO2 group for every carbon, not just
> a fifth of them, plus has a highly stressed structure.
>
>
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> Norman Yarvin http://yarchive.net/blog
>
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