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Nitric acid spill

Predacon35 - 11-3-2019 at 04:43

https://www.foxnews.com/us/thousands-of-gallons-of-nitric-ac...

Herr Haber - 11-3-2019 at 05:56

“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”

RedDwarf - 11-3-2019 at 07:23

I couldn't stop getting this image in my head of amateur chemists rushing to the leak with buckets and bottles like you see sometimes when fuel pipelines are breached! :o

CharlieA - 11-3-2019 at 16:28

:D:D:D

phlogiston - 12-3-2019 at 03:29

:)
That one goes into my list of 'you know when you are an amateur chemist when ...'

... you rush -towards- a chemical spill.

PirateDocBrown - 12-3-2019 at 08:40

5 miles from my house. These guys often have spills.

[Edited on 3/12/19 by PirateDocBrown]

Tsjerk - 12-3-2019 at 09:23

Some algae and bacteria are so happy right now...

Metacelsus - 13-3-2019 at 00:10

And some (closer to the spill) are very much unhappy.

It turns out the spill location was only about 2 miles from where I grew up. (Also, I find it funny that the link for Minneapolis on the Fox News website goes to a page about the Justine Damond shooting, instead of general Minneapolis information. Of course Fox would do that.)

Here's a local news site with a bit more details: http://www.startribune.com/authorities-responding-to-hazardo...

[Edited on 2019-3-13 by Metacelsus]