Saw this on Dan of Dan's Data's blog. This chemical called chlorine trifluoride which is a horrifically reactive substance and is a better oxidiser than oxygen so can burn things like sand or concrete or metal even asbestos it reacts violently with water and was tested by the germans in WW2 as a self igniting flame thrower which it worked fine at it just tended to ignite everything including test engineers.
Scary stuff
Comments
This goes straight onto my list of "things to abuse in roleplay games".
Loads of things are better oxidisers that O2.
I'll admit it's nasty but then so are loads of other things.
Indeed :)
This is just one I stumbled across today, who knows what I'll find tomorrow :D