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Endimion17
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Deadly Simple Liquid
I've came upon a fantastic discovery few minutes ago. I had a hunch, made a hypothesis and when I turned on my equipment to test it, it proved right.
I'm so happy right now.
Photos shortly. It will be a quiz.
OK, guys... I want you to guess the substance in this container. Let the background image be a slight hint. A very, very slight hint. 
Each one has ten shots. You'll never guess. 
EDIT(woelen): Split from pretty pictures thread
[Edited on 12-4-13 by woelen]
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Is it acetic anhydride or some liquified gas?
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Pok
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Ultrapure White Phosphorus
Deuterium peroxide
A saturated solution of Scandium bromate
Liquified Octafluorocyclobutane
Decolorized urine from an agamid lizard - namely: Sitana ponticeriana
I'm sure it's one of these! I can see it from the refractive index! Too easy, man!
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Keep guessing.
<iframe sandbox width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q-xEiOPLbWA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
It's something I've bought recently.
[Edited on 10-4-2013 by Endimion17]
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Hmmm, maybe water? Or pure coniine?
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Ethyl acetate? Methyl acetate? Acetyl chloride? Molten sodium acetate?
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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Endimion17
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But it's not what it looks like therefore it can only be something that doesn't look like this.
It behaves like this (there are also hints on YouTube), but it does not look like this.
I know you're mad right now, but I rarely have a chance to create a decent riddle so play along. 
The video description and the video itself might give you a clue. It's very hard, and I admit I probably couldn't answer it myself.
You'll be stunned once I give you the correct answer. As far as I know, nobody ever even mentioned this particular behavior of this thing online, let
alone posted a video of it.
[Edited on 10-4-2013 by Endimion17]
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Choline chloride/urea eutectic.
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Maybe just plain methanol?
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hydrofluoric acid?
there may be bugs in gfind
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Liquified formaldehyde? Chloroacetic acid anhydrite? Chloral hydrate? Sulfur trioxide? Nitric oxide? Or possibly trialkyl aluminium?
[Edited on 10-4-2013 by Adas]
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carbon monoxide, carbon disulfide.
Carbon tetrachloride/bromide.
Some deriviation of plumbane/silane/stannane.
Some interhalogen compound.
Some halogen oxide.
Those were my 10 guesses.
Come on, don't keep us waiting.
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NG maybe? thionyl chloride?
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"It can kill you"... I think that this could be also said from this too:
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Endimion you are a bad person  thionyl chloride? Triethylborane? Diphosphane?
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Phosgene? I doubt it's a supercooled solid, but I wouldn't count it out just yet...
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The more you fail, the more happy you'll be this weekend (or tomorrow). Tee hee! XD
Today's hints are:
- it's not a liquefyed gas, nor a molten solid at room temperature; the pressure above the liquid is 1 atmosphere
- it fumes horribly when you open the container
- low boiling point, significantly lower than the boiling point of water
- rather heavy liquid
- it's not a mixture
And, as mentioned before, it's not what it looks like.
kristofvagyok - that's a bottle of joy and happiness right there, LOL.
This wouldn't kill you as fast, given the same molar content, but the suffering would be greater...
[Edited on 11-4-2013 by Endimion17]
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Pok
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Phosphorus trichloride
If you made any mistake with your hints we will be very angry! Is it organic? Say yes or no.
BTW: if it's not what it looks like then it isn't what the seller claimed it to be.
[Edited on 11-4-2013 by Pok]
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Endimion17
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No, this is not PCl3, and I haven't made any mistakes so far.
I really shouldn't give off any general clues, but to reduce the number of chemicals involved in the riddle, let me just say it's very simple and
inorganic.
BTW: if it's not what it looks like then it isn't what the seller claimed it to be.
You're dead wrong. Consider what Benjamin Franklin said about older women he chased a lot - all cats are grey in the dark.
Oh, the confusion.
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SiCl<sub>4</sub>? TiCl<sub>4</sub>? POCl<sub>3</sub>?
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Pok
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No. It's not what it looks like.
Poo? It's highly toxic and corrosive. And "it's not what it looks like".
Tell it us! 24 h are the eternity in the internet. I am awake for 24 hours now and didn't go to work because I want to know it. Don't let me die from
insomnia! This isn't funny anymore! It's a psycho WAR!
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Well it could be N2O4 it is technically liquid at room temp, very reactive and volatile and dosn't at all look like what you have, possibly low light
conditions obscure its colour?
I really like these puzzles they should be done more often.
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Quote: Originally posted by Boron Trioxide  | Well it could be N2O4 it is technically liquid at room temp, very reactive and volatile and dosn't at all look like what you have, possibly low light
conditions obscure its colour?
I really like these puzzles they should be done more often.
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N2O4 is blue when liquified. It might be SiCl4! This fumes heavily when exposed to air.
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Endimion17
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No, no, no, no.
And poo? Fuck, I had no idea poo is corrosive... Well, technically, bird poo is, and human poo is certainly corrosive to potassium. I'm sure that,
having a bench made of potassium and taking a dump on it would cause a lot more mess than just the fact there's poo on it.
Pok, although you've correctly understood it's not what it looks like (finally, someone), am so sorry, but you'll have to wait a bit longer. I've
published an article to mess with even more people.
Go to bed. I'm sure nobody is going to guess while you're asleep.
Here's another hint. Look closely at the glass-liquid border. What do you see?
[Edited on 11-4-2013 by Endimion17]
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You mean the low viscosity? Because I don't see any glass-liquid border.
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