hanson wrote:

"Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
news:45422618.33632882@hate.spam.net...

After trying to remember what I learned about MO theory years ago, I
think peroxochlorate should be diamagnetic too. But as I'm not so sure
about it comments would be appreciated.
@ Uncle Al:
I would still like to know why you think peroxochlorate is a bad idea
in many ways.

All electrons are paired in all cases. All species are diamagnetic.
Carefully - no friction! - mix a chlorate salt with an equal amount of
table sugar, then ignite. Wooooeeee! Perchlorate has a big knetic
barrier from its symmetry and steric hindrance. Chlorate has no
barriers. It is an incredibly dangerous oxidizer in the presence of
fuel. Peroxochlorate is a self-contained bomb.

Unreactive unpaired spins generally require burial in d- or f-orbitals
(paramagnetic transition and inner transtion metal ions), orbital
filling footnotes (elemental dioxygen), or nitrogen (for its odd
number of electrons) and some pluck (NO, NO2 monomer, DPPH, TEMPO;
nitronyl nitroxides, verdazyls, etc.). In non-stoichiometric low
density, paramagnetic free radical species are abundant - coal,
melanin, some pyrolytic graphites.
Uncle Al

Practical applications of Per/Chlorates
NH4ClO4 -- Ammonium Perchlorate and Alu dust in
Polyurethane is used as solid propellants from the
Polaris-, Trident to the Minuteman missiles as well as
in the Shuttle boosters. Enviro shits complained that
70 tons of HCl is released into the atmosphere with
each launch... ahahaha... Anybody know how much
their permit fees and user charges were?..... ahahaha...

NaClO3 -- Sodium Chlorate, the Soil Sterilant makes
effective but low brisanz explosives and as said above
& it is an effective oxidizer for anything organic. To wit:
In the parking lot of the assembly division they had a
street side green corner spot about 50 ft x 20 ft which
was always overrun by the 18-wheelers and made it
unsightly. So Maintenance decided to kill the grass
and brush off with NaClO3 and let the trucks compact
the mulch into a hard, bare-soil spot hoping that the
city wouldn't notice nor *****. So, they emptied and
spread two 100 lbs drums of NaClO3 onto it and
watered it for 10 minutes. Time went by. Summer
came... and one day fine a car parked at that curb,
out of which the driver flicked his still lit cigarette butt
onto that ground. 5 seconds later there was white smoke
emerging from there.. and ever more.. car took off.. and
so did the conflagration. For 2 minutes, 10 ft tall yellow
flames & smoke shot out of the ground all the over the whole
place. It looked like we had our own mini volcano going.
Was great!.. 5 minutes later the fire dept came and they
flooded the place. "Happens all the time, all over the
place" said the fire chief laconically... ahahaha... That
was then. Today TV, the moon suite dudes and Chertoffs
soldiers would come with the tank from SWAT and look
for terrorists... ahahaha... ahahaha... ahahanson

hanson--I think uncle al was referring to KNO3--you know, that stuff
the nuns used to slip into your mashed potatoes at Catholic school.
;-)) ---- Keep me laughing hanson,

Tut