Don’t know much about history….
Jul 02, 2008 in Play
Did you know that cyclopropane was discovered in 1881 by August Freund?
It’s chemical structure can be represented in standard molecular shorthand by a simple equilateral triangle, because each Carbon has 2 bonds to other carbons, and is bound to 2 hydrogen atoms as well.
It’s mixture with oxygen is highly explosive, because it breaks down to form linear propane, which is itself a potentially explosive reaction, and there is a reaction with the oxygen as well!
And we used to use this as an anaesthetic gas….
