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1/17/2013 9:22:05 PM
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Chemistry lab accidents.

Wow, it has only been two class days into the semester and we had an accident in our lab. Today we were messing around with Sulfuric Acid (nasty stuff). About 10 minutes in, somebody had the bright idea to leave their back pack in the middle of the floor. One person who was walking the Acid to their station did not see it and tripped. The Acid flew across the room and landed on a young woman's shirt... Now, our instructor yelled for her to take off her shirt and bra, but freaked out and sat their burning and screaming for all of the guys to leave. WHILE BURNING! Come on? We are all adults and we all know what the human body looks like. It is a dangerous situation and I do not believe that people are going to place their feelings above that young girls safety... Stupidity at its finest right there. What kind of accidents occurred when and if you were ever in a Chemistry lab?

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  • Well, not in lab, but I had some close calls while cooking potassium nitrate and sucrose. Me and a buddy were trying to find the right mixture for an industrial size smoke bomb that would burn during paintball matches. My wife wouldn't let us do it inside, or use her pans. So, we did our best to make due on an old charcoal grill with pie tins. Using a heat source we couldn't control, the inevitable happened rather quickly. The mixture caught fire and proceeded to burn through the pan and grill, starting a small fire on my deck. After that ordeal, we thought maybe a propane burner would be more stable. We still managed to light the mixture on fire. Again, vaporizing the pie tin, and was on it's way down the makeshift rack when we noticed it was going directly to the propane tank. We kicked the thing over before any serious damage was done. At this point, we decided our attempts to use inappropriate equipment were doomed. Went out and got a hotplate and some cheap pans and finished without incident.

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