Talk:Performic acid

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A fact from Performic acid appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that performic acid explodes upon rapid heating to about 80 °C?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/January.

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"This does not make sense"??

The article says: "Aqueous solutions (up to 90%) can be prepared... This does not make sense."

If it doesn't make sense, it should be removed. No need to make a statement then contradict it. If the point is to disprove a common claim, this could be rephrased as "Despite common claims of aqueous preparations of 90% performic acid, the maximum synthesized strength is X% because...".

Piojo (talk) 02:58, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]