Brain&Force
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HAZMAT called at UCSD
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Hazmat-Crews-Respondin...
No injuries were reported. There aren't any details as to what chemicals were mixed, but I have an excellent feeling this is overblown. What do you
think?
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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Amos
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You know those guys at the fire department were just itching to bring out the big guns. They freak out this same way anytime a couple of grams of
picric acid are found at a university.
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Magpie
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That's my guess too: picric acid or maybe some TNT.
Didn't picric acid use to be made in school labs to make a yellow dye?
The single most important condition for a successful synthesis is good mixing - Nicodem
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Brain&Force
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Another link from Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/UCSD/comments/2ez37p/ucsd_building_e...
I've included links to this and the TMS azide explosion that Cheddite Cheese talked about.
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Amos
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Quote: Originally posted by Magpie  | That's my guess too: picric acid or maybe some TNT.
Didn't picric acid use to be made in school labs to make a yellow dye? |
That was my immediate thought, but it said they mixed two chemicals together. I heard about a bottle of mixed acetone and nitric acid exploded quite
violently at night in a lab once; maybe it's something along those lines.
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The_Davster
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what retard found picric acid and wet themselves?
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Brain&Force
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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/29/lab-accident-prom...
It was silver nitrate and ethanol. Isn't that mixture used in electrophilic substitutions, if I'm not mistaken?
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Resulting in probable in situ formation of sensitive Ag fulminate...
CH3-CH2OH + AgNO3 -unequilibrated-> AgO-N=C + CO2 + H2O
A few mg into a glass recipient with flamable ethanol is quite a treat if spontaneous detonation occurs! A bit like an activated grenade...Maybe was
Bruno Mars involved? ... "I got a grenade for you..." Joke   
[Edited on 31-8-2014 by PHILOU Zrealone]
PH Z (PHILOU Zrealone)
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