Trimmed the quote tree a bit.

On 5/27/2018 3:29 PM, Michael Houghton wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> Are you thinking of Derek Lowe, whose blog includes a category "Things
> I Won't Work With",
> which includes some compounds with way too many nitrogen atoms jammed
> in. For example:
>
> http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2011/11/11/things_i_wont_work_with_hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane
>
> yours,
> Michael

Yup, that's the one!

The thing to understand about many of these crazy compounds is that what
they want more than anything is to become large, hot clouds of free
nitrogen (thus reversing the process(es) by which all of it was crammed
in there).  And if you give them half a chance, they will.

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