An incredible kaboom!

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Cor. We made such a big bang in lab that the smoke alarm went off and the entire building had to be evacuated! I regard this as a success.

Unbelievably, that reaction (magnesium with copper (II) oxide) was only described as "violent". We could also have done the thermite reaction, but that was described as "extremely violent", and the college security were already pissed off with us.

I am very proud.

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Growing up in Northern Ireland it was actually quite hard to get hold of anything explosive for some spurious reason or other. ;) Actually, we did get to make 2,4 - dinitrophenylhydrazine which i believe is quite explosive when it dries out. I'm surprised some idiot didn't try to find out; there were plenty of those in my chemistry class.