This is chlorine trifluoride, one of the most reactive, corrosive substances known. This stuff will light asbestos on fire, as well as sand, glass, many metals, and oh, it will also ignite water. Basically if you start a fire with this stuff, your only option is to let it burn out, because anything you put on it will just burn up itself (though if it’s in an enclosed space you can flood the space with like argon or whatever). Apparently a spill of almost a ton of this stuff burned its way through a foot of concrete and 3 feet of gravel before it stopped.
This is when I get to introduce everyone to some of my favourite science writing ever: Things I Won’t Work With by Biochemist Ph.D. Derek Lowe, featured on Science dot org.
It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers,
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The reference to “Things I Won’t Work With” inspires me to tag in @jumpingjacktrash (hope you don’t mind!), because this post 100% made me think of “Nitro” and now I’m picturing Katsuo helping Deidara rig up a chlorine trifluoride flamethrower just to bug Itachi. Behold, Amaterasu can totally be duplicated without a sharingan or even chakra! …by anyone willing to risk their lives and the scenery to do so, anyway.
the trick is coming up with a way to carry the stuff. it eats storage seals on contact.
For my own purposes, I want to sort out a timeline for how I’d like to believe the events unfolded, starting with the founding of the villages as Year 0. There are a lot of contradictory statements about how old people are, when the village would’ve existed, etc. One clear example: I have to disregard the statement that Hashirama became Hokage 67 years prior to Naruto’s events. Since he was Hokage at the time of Madara’s defection, it was actually 74 years prior to Part II at minimum that Hashirama became Hokage, based on the ages of Hashirama’s grandchildren.
So a lot of this is going to be 1) pure conjecture and 2) selective reasoning. It’s also not going to pay much mind to birthdays aside from their year date, as that might make this overly complicated. It’s a fruitless endeavour, really, but I thought it’d be fun to try to make sense of it all. Below the dates I have character ages where it is useful or relevant, as well as notes on how it fits into the narrative/in respect to other established dates. I’m sure there are better and more precise ones that exist, but this one’s mostly just for me anyway.
So without further ado, here’s my timeline:
Year 0: Konohagakure is founded; village system established
Characters: Hashirama and Madara approx. age 25
Notes: Konoha is founded in the years following Izuna’s death, who is approximately 24 when he dies. Madara and Hashirama both appear to be 1-2 years older than their siblings based on their appearances as children.
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