Dioxygen difluoride reacts vigorously with nearly every chemical it encounters (including ordinary ice) leading to its onomatopoeic nickname FOOF (a play on its chemical structure and its explosive …

Foof! is what happens when this insanely reactive compound encounters almost anything. Even at −160 °C it decomposes slowly into OF 2 and oxygen. At higher temperatures it explodes when coming into …

Feb 23, 2010 · This, folks, is the bracingly direct route to preparing dioxygen difluoride, often referred to in the literature by its evocative formula of FOOF. Well, "often" is sort of a relative term. Most of the …

Aug 23, 2019 · First synthesised in Germany in the 1930s by inorganic chemists Otto Ruff and Walter Menzel, FOOF belongs to the oxygen fluorides, a highly dangerous class of oxidants.

Among the products of such research is dioxygen difluoride, FOOF. The compound is prepared by passing a low-pressure mixture of F2 and O 2 through a silent discharge. A very unstable compound, …

FOOF is one of the most furious oxidizers known to man -- it rips electrons from other compounds. Oxygen does the same thing to fuel combustion, but not quite so feverishly as FOOF.

Oct 16, 2023 · Dioxygen difluoride, nicknamed FOOF, is an extremely reactive and unstable compound discovered in the 1930s that can cause materials to catch fire or explode on contact.