A brief list of conditions which will cause sovrium to detonate,  discovered during our replication of Vinel's work, in no particular order:

• Using insufficiently greased pistons that thus cause a friction source.
• Scrubbing an unclean tile in the cabinet to get the dust off.
• Stopping the transmutation engine in any way that is not the graceful shutdown switch.
• Idly clicking the pincers of a gripper arm together in the satisfying way that we all deny doing.
• Running the production cabinet on a non-level surface.
• Adjusting your specular lighting source.
• Placing a Glyph of Equilibrium. Perhaps its perfect balance in all respects offends the compound.
• Random chance.
• Walking into the room too excitedly because you had an idea for saving one cycle.
• Wishing too hard that it will not explode this time.
• Wrong phase of the moon, I presume.


       -Alchemist Kazyan, in correspondence with Alchemist Jasper