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....
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
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As an esteemed fellow of the College now, I hope you were drunk when writing that excellently abstract piece of historical information. Seriously, well done matey!!
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!)
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