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FULMINATING GOLD

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Otherwise known as explosive gold, this was the very first high explosive known to humanity. Discovered by alchemists in the late 1500's, it has since been subject to centuries of research. According to one study: "Probably almost every chemist of the 19th century once worked on fulminating gold". Yet, despite this wide body of research, chemists still can't describe it with a chemical equation to this day.

Link to the study: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF032♥♥♥♥♥.pdf
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zorflax  [author] 2 Mar, 2021 @ 3:24pm 
If anyone's interested in a low cycle solution, check out this masterpiece made by a couple of people a while ago: 350/40/47 [i.imgur.com]

Also I had another look at my old solution, and it turns out there was still plenty of room for optimization: 170/74/31 [i.imgur.com]
vizthex 24 May, 2020 @ 11:25pm 
I really like this puzzle. Managed to get 305/153/57: https://imgur.com/sQvgWHa
Septhrin 6 Mar, 2020 @ 12:46am 
https://imgur.com/a/e0NArUv 470/47/92
zorflax  [author] 8 Jan, 2020 @ 5:57pm 
oh wow I have no idea how I missed that haha, nice catch.

Here, I shuffled it around a bit so instead of saving three cycles, it saves two cycles and three area: 175/82/36 [imgur.com]
WolffeGames 3 Jan, 2020 @ 2:21pm 
I copied your solution, but got a faster speed? Huh?

https://imgur.com/gallery/SAkFU5s
zorflax  [author] 26 Nov, 2019 @ 5:40am 
Author's solution: 175/84/39 [imgur.com]