Awhile ago I was pondering metastable nuclei as a detonator. The notion is that when it releases energy, what's left isn't pollutive nor radioactive. Late June, we heard of hexanitrogen. That's N6 in a chain; the authors call it C2h-N6.
The advantage of this molecule is that its decay-product becomes part of the propellant. Those nuclei by contrast were just a fast-n'-furious heat source. That makes the Nn a rocket-fuel, perhaps in a 3D-printed ring of nozzles (I cannot see controlling much of it in one place). As the decay-product should, further, just be nitrogen (we better be keeping oxygen far from it) it should also be good for blasting at sea-level and not be a space-only thing like, oh, hydrazine.
What I don't know is if this molecule will store well. People keep talking hydrogen as fuel but it doesn't store. This fuel looks like a monster.
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