Talk:Mercury nitride

Ideas (Millon's base)

Papers on mercury nitrides will obviously be somewhat rare (they tend to explode with very little provocation) however anyone wanting to flesh this page out may want to look at Millon's base (Hg₂N⁺) which is at least fairly well characterised (although many of the papers are quite old).Project Osprey (talk) 11:07, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

"they tend to explode with very little provocation" says who? --Smokefoot (talk) 12:42, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Good question. There is literature but it's poor quality. The eminent "Journal of Phase Equilibria" has the closest thing to a review (DOI 10.1007/BF02646764): Mercuric nitride (Hg₃N₂) is definitely explosive and there are some secondary refs ("The Preparatory Manual of Explosives" p121, ISBN:0615142907) and (10.1002/0471701343.sdp24887.pub2). Mercurous nitride (Hg₆N₂) apparently exists but I can't find anything on it. Frankly though, we could do without these sorts of pages. Exotic compounds with ancient, sometimes contradicting sources, buried in journals you've never heard of. The pages have a tendency to go haywire.-- Project Osprey (talk) 15:49, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

[Hg₂N]N₃

I'm surprised this article (wait, stub) doesn't give any mention at all regarding what Klapötke et al. managed to conjure up with Millon's base: nitridodimercury azide... ―2602:306:BCA6:8300:D8CC:E1EC:FC2E:2C65 (talk) 06:24, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Really? It took 8 months to make, has no appications and is unlikely to be ever made again. Project Osprey (talk) 08:15, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Agreed, I am impressed that Wikipedia even has an article on this super-obscure stuff. Wikipedia is not a news reporting agency (WP:NOTNEWS) and it prefers to rely on topics that have been subjects of reviews (WP:SECONDARY) to ensure notability. --Smokefoot (talk) 09:19, 14 July 2014 (UTC)