# Detonating Nitrogen triiodide

Detonating 15 g of Nitrogen triiodide - This compound is created by mixing iodine with concentrated ammonia, it is a contact explosive which can be set off with the smallest shock. It is also the only reaction that we know of which can be set off by alpha radiation.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Michael Bell
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detonating_Nitrogen_triiodide.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Michael Bell
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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