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? Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2