An incredible kaboom!

[baratron]

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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[vampwillow]

At my school, the final lesson of every term was 'explosions day' where we just blew things up. Helped that we had a fireworks factory nearby who kept us well supplied, plus two very mad chem teachers who had blown bits of themselves off/up over the years.

A couple of times us sixth-formers got carried away and caused the evacuation of the whole science block ;->

!!

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Even I'm shocked by that!

Don't think it would be allowed anymore... (unfortunately)

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[vampwillow]

yeah ... sortof annoys me now that kids don't seem to be able to get to do the fun, practical stuff that people of my age used to do in chemistry and physics lessons (hell, we didn't even have goggles!).

2:4 dichlorobromoethylene, I think, was the most 'interesting' experience we had ... had to evacuate half the upper school when it went a bit too well!