Don’t know much about history….
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 @ 14:21 | 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….
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July 13th, 2008 at 04:59
Thanks James.
Sorry to hear you didn’t pass.
I was indeed, fairly not sober when writing that…
(Although I cheated a little bit, and wrote it before it was actually posted!)