However, sodium azide isn’t found in many air bags these days — its nasty properties caused it to be phased out in the 1990s — but in its time, it saved a lot of people. If you want to see a ...

CuAAC weds an azide and an alkyne to make a triazole that connects two different molecular entities. As useful as CuAAC has been for scientists, synthesizing the azide is not trivial.

The name "airbag" can be deceiving because the bag is not exactly filled with air. Instead, this life-saving device is filled with nitrogen gas, which is produced in a swift reaction by a compound ...

Covers basic chemistry as well as state-of-the-art applications in life science and materials science. World-ranked authors describe their own research in the wider context of azide chemistry.

Many car airbag inflators contain small amounts of a toxic molecule called sodium azide, or NaN 3 (one sodium atom and three nitrogen atoms combined). Sodium azide breaks down very quickly when heated ...

Two series of well-defined brush polymers bearing a triazole moiety on each bristle were prepared from the click chemistry reactions of a poly (glycidyl azide) (PG) and a poly (4 ...

A handful (130 grams) of sodium azide will produce 67 liters of nitrogen gas¿which is enough to inflate a normal air bag. That's not the only chemistry involved.

The use of those in organometallic chemistry (very fast, highly exothermic) and two sodium-azide chemistry examples (alkylhalide --> alkylazide substitution; assembling a substituted triazole) will be ...

The liquid in some rapid at-home COVID-19 tests contains a small amount of the toxic chemical sodium azide, but they are safe when used properly.

Sodium azide, a potentially lethal chemical, is used as a preservative agent in the extraction vial of many rapid COVID-19 tests kits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines ...