[x1f604]

From the book:

(Warning: Spoilers ahead)

> The next day I told Parry that I was flattered but would not make pentaborane. He was affable, showed no surprise, no disappointment, just produced a list of names, most of which had been crossed off; ours was close to the bottom. He crossed us off and drove off in his little auto leaving for Gittman's, or perhaps, another victim. Later I heard that he visited two more candidates who displayed equal lack of interest and the following Spring the Navy put up its own plant, which blew up with considerable loss of life. The story did not make the press.

[fuzzfactor]

When Gergel was writing this I was working for one of the similar companies, a research chemicals company fairly close to the bottom of that list also.

We made lots of different unique chemicals ourselves but distributed many more.

Quite a few from Columbia Organics, I remember their isopropyl bromide well.

[keepamovin]

Hahaha. Fuck. The history of pentaborane is littered with human tragedy. What an appropriate compound for this troubled age.

[lazide]

Definitely don’t read about the history of acetylene then.

Same as it’s always been.