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Old 11-06-2017, 07:29 AM   #11
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in the famous chemistry experiment "a penny yields a penny" (in which you dissolve a penny and then move it through various reactions to yield various cupric compounds, and in the end you in theory yield back the penny's amount of copper) the girl next to me dropped that big old one liter glass container of 1 Normal Nitric Acid next to be, She got splashed on bare legs, my jeans and shoes shielded me, except the jeans pretty much melted when I had to shower off in that emergency station in the lab.

Pretty exciting, I got to go home and change. My mother was not amused.
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Old 11-07-2017, 04:57 PM   #12
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She got splashed on bare legs, my jeans and shoes shielded me, except the jeans pretty much melted when I had to shower off in that emergency station in the lab.


I hope to hell that the stuff is plastic packed now. Glass is neutral and all that, but I know too many people who shouldn't even handle a glass bottle of beer.
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Old 11-08-2017, 05:58 AM   #13
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I have no idea... I imagine today they don't let high school kids have it, there would have been a law suit today if it happened.

My first lab in general chemistry at Purdue, well you realized the joke about "say hello to the person on either side of you. now say hello to the person in front of you. Now say hello to the person behind you. Now realize only one of you will be here next semester" was true.

We had two people prove that liquids don't compress (no idea why they were pushing down on a beaker floating in water in another beaker (we must have been doing a way to measure density or displacement). Another person walked away from a flask over a burner (which went drive and cracked). Then I picked up the sulfuric acid jar and realized it was wet. With sulfuric acid. I flushed my hand in water and turned down the offer to go to the health center... the poor lab instructor about had a nervous breakdown.

I didn't tell my mom about the acid burn. I did learn to trust no one in lab.
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I don't trust people with a bottle of sprite and a package of mentos.

Did your area have the old story about getting high by putting an aspirin in a coke? Do you have any idea how many come and aspirin cocktails I had? Never got high, never had a headache go away, either.
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