09-11-2020, 07:53 PM
(09-11-2020, 11:11 AM)Crackle Wrote:(08-11-2020, 11:21 PM)Cleggy Wrote: Actually, I think the greatest dangers I ever encountered were in the 6th Form chem lab at school. We were told to do crazy stuff and there were quite a few "incidents"!
Blimey did you go to the same school as me?
Mike
It's absolutely true. The worst thing that actually happened to me at school was getting quite a lot of bromine on my hand, No permanent damage, but was bandaged up for some time. Then we made nitrobenzene by boiling up benzene and nitric acid out in the open lab (no fume-cupboards). There was another time when the whole class "mutinied" and walked out of the lab because the teacher has filled it with sulphur dioxide gas. There was a really scary near-miss; they had bought retort stand clamps which must have been made out of some alloy with the melting point of chocolate. Some kid was (doing what he was told to do) heating up something with a bunsen, and the clamp just melted - the molten metal and some hot glassware very nearly falling on his hand. Dangerous days!
C
She came in through the Bathroom Window, Protected by a Silver Spoon...
