At 02:34 AM 12/30/01 +0200, Sampo Syreeni wrote:

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:

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Minor correction: /H2H2/ should be /H2O2/, naturally.

Organic peroxides are useful as improvised blasting caps, but otherwise much too unstable.

Yes, it's unstable, but what, exactly, is it that makes $H_{2}O_{2}$ organic?

EL first made a correction to the text, then independently commented about how *acetone* peroxides are touchy. Acetone being organic.