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What is the the most explosive liquid on earth?

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What is the the most explosive liquid on earth?

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  1. liquid oxygen


  2. Nitroglycerin

    Based on the number of answers that have been given which appear to be based on ignorance, I will elaborate my answer.

    Oxygen and hydrogen as LIQUIDS are not explosive at all. Oxygen is not even explosive after it is converted into a gas - it is merely the oxidizer which allows combustion to occur (and an explosion is merely very rapid oxidation).  Hydrogen is explosive when converted to a gas (as it is in all rocket fuel applications), but as a liquid it is too cold and dense to oxidize, so in that form it is not explosive.  Also, neither of these elements exists at standard room temperature and pressure as a liquid.

    The reason that Alfred Nobel (after whom the Nobel prize in named) became famous is that he found a way to stabilize nitroglycerin by combining it with inert materials to make it safe to transport.  It is/was dangerous because as a liquid it is so unstable that simply agitating it could/would cause its detonation.

  3. cesium or francium in water... or lava (volcanos)

  4. Liquid Hydrogen / Oxygen reaction.  It is what is used by NASA on the space shuttle.  Can propel a several ton aircraft into space that is some power.  Unfortunately during the Challenger incident we found out how bad a spontanious explosion could be.  

    Also if you look at the periodic table, both elements are near the top making them the most reactive in their classes.  

  5. Liquid Hydrogen.

  6. i'll guess beans through a juicer.

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