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From: srp@ethz.UUCP (Scott Presnell)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Low yeild explosives and "snappers"
Message-ID: <124@bernina.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 01:13:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: bernina.124
Posted: Sun Jul  5 01:13:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jul-87 07:04:12 EDT
References: <209@picuxa.UUCP> <531@nonvon.UUCP>
Reply-To: srp@bernina.UUCP (Scott Presnell)
Organization: Chem. Dept., Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. (ETH-Zurich)
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In article <531@nonvon.UUCP> apn@nonvon.UUCP (root) writes:

>...
>ammonium tri-iodide is basically held together by H-H bonding and as the
>water ( or other polar aprotic solvent ) evaporates away it becomes
>unstable. BTW, ammonium tri-iodide is not at all the correct name, but
>it *is* the common one.  It still is my favorite..... nothing quite like
>purple clouds of smoke with accompanying crackles. 

There is no known crystal structure of Ammonium tri-iodide / Nitrogen
tri-iodide as it is too unstable. The one thing that is known is the
stoichiometry: it is one Nitrogen to three Iodides. N1, I3.
Therefore it probably is not Ammonium tri-iodide in the sense that an
ammonium ion is involved, unless the hydrogen stoichiometry was left out
because it could not be determined.

Disclaimer: After consulting a few of my colleagues and my Professor, this
was the consensus agreement.

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Scott Presnell 						Organic Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology  (ETH-Zentrum)
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
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