Nitrogen Triiodide Detonation
When nitrogen triiodide, the dark colored solid, is dry, it is very sensitive to touch or any vibration. Simply touching it with a feather causes it to explode or detonate. One detonation causes another to occur. One product of the reaction is violet iodine vapor.
The size of the movie file is 1.6 MB and its duration is 47 seconds. The name of the movie file is "NI3IOD.MOV" and it is located in the folder "MOVIES/NITRO3I".
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