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They threw balloons over the fence to weaken concrete with Salt, Acetic Acid, Peroxide, and acrylic paint at some bare concrete and steel where a facility is going to be built.
I feel like the guy with the paint didn't understand the memo.
Sugar water would have worked better.
Just needs a supply of ~~Dioxygen difluoride~~ Chlorine trifluoride [ref] which when spilled in large quantities "burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath"
A quick visit to wikipedia gives me this lovely paragraph which makes me nervous:
Flourine is really scary stuff. If we're going to toss some FOOF at the concrete, we could also use ClF~3~. Clorine Triflouride is another angry oxidizer that I'm pretty sure is hypergolic with sand of all things.
More like tossing FAFO
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