Sand Won&#x27;t Save You This Time (the prequel to Chlorine Trifluoride: Some Empirical Findings) is also worth the read. Quoting John Drury Clark:<p><i>It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. 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, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively.</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;sand_wont_save_you_this_time" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;san...</a>