Originally Posted by
FredAnderssen
But I will say, as a chemical engineer myself, that there are certain liquids readily available in any laboratory setting (including university laboratories), that when mixed have a very low activation energy. The result is predictable. This is self evident to anyone here who has ever worked in a lab.*
Sure, nitrogen triiodide. Mix it, place it, let it dry, trigger, boom.
Note the order of the steps, though! Good luck blowing up a plane in flight with something like that.
The issue is two liquids that can be mixed to make a boom *WITHOUT* the let it dry step and without having a energy of formation that will prematurely detonate them if you don't have enough cooling.