Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20151125184514/@comment-24891101-20151203052425

That's what I thought you were suggesting.

I can tell you professionally that that won't work. Consider your setup. You have a molten polymer which you want to rapidly move to another location, subject to viscosity changes due to the high shear rate. You want to induce a chemical change in it by exposure to oxygen at ambient temperature. You need to get the oxygen through the melt and reach uniform concentration throughout on a short timescale. Simultaneously, you want to attain a uniform concentration of a particular multicomponent system in the matrix while is undergoing a chemical reaction and solidifying. This is a very complicated diffusion problem (every element has different diffusion coefficients which are time dependant because of the reaction occurring) with reaction kinetics elements, plus whatever models and maths govern Dust recombinations, which would require careful control at the best of times, and is not doable in combat times. One would be hard-pressed to get this to go off right in the lab, let alone in a weapon. You'd need a tank for the polymer melt (which can't be rearranged with the weapon), an oxygen tank (because diffusion of atmospheric oxygen would be really slow), a reaction chamber, and very careful modelling, which might require different setups depending on what Dust product you want.