[John Will]

For all you Chemistry Freepers(Myself Included). The energy requirements to break the bond must be staggering.

[Argus]

The name is Bond. Quintuple Bond...

(come on, somebody had to say it)

[Fierce Allegiance]

Sweet!

[blowfish]

Holy s**t, that's amazing!

The energy requirements to break the bond must be staggering.

Not necessarily. The thing sounds pretty unstable, so it's clear that those electrons really don't enjoy being crammed into that hybrid orbital very much...

[Leg Olam]

In other news scientists have finally found a way to make a monkey wash a cat!

http://www.brud.info/video/monkey_washing_cat.mov

[ol painless]

Neat. I got my M.S. in chemistry at Texas A&M, although it was in organic chemistry.

[Old Professer]

Why aren't they the same making it?

[thoughtomator]

If you can make armor out of this it would be nigh impenetrable!