Things I won’t work with, either
I was randomly linked to an awesome blog of an organic chemist who wrote, among other things, several posts titled “Things I won’t work with”. Here: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/
Even if you’re a non-chemist, you will appreciate the compounds that can force evacuation of a village when their scent wafts over from an open flask in a nearby college, compounds that set concrete, sand, bricks, water, and people on fire as they happily burn through them, or compounds that just blow up while standing undisturbed in the dark at cryogenic temperatures.
Fun stuff.. And no, I didn’t work with any of the title compounds either 
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