On the other hand its mother which rhymes with Pathetic Van Side Ride is quite flammable and produces really nasty fumes-- once when I was doing something I cannot remember with a certain nitrogenous substance with five carbon rings in it from a bitchin' great flower. I heated the mixture in an ice cream scoop on a natural gas stove and a flame caught it -- there was this big orange fireball and the mixture burned for a while and actually melted the metal . . . Jesus - I had no idea . . . I think carbon subnitride or some such thing can burn at almost 5000°C but I'm not sure what happened here. I mentioned it to a pyrotechnician I know and she said she would rather deal with sodium metal than the chemical in question. I wondered if I should make something similar happen and point a spectroscope at it, but I when this happened, I had to open the window and run a fan when it was -30°C and had a bad cough for three weeks, which a doctor treated with a shot of Dilaudid and a script for 300 ml of Codiclear, one of those things where one punches out the methylprednisolone tablets and a 12 tablets of doxycycline . . . turns out the ashes of my experiment had anti-tussive qualities as well . . .
