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Fantasma4500
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Chemist's Nightmare
List up a few scenarios or actual stories you have heard or even experienced about chemistry, as in bad cases.
2 things i wouldnt be happy about as a start
spilling a large bottle of superfine MnO2 powder
having the bottom of a glass H2SO4 98% container dropping out, out of nowhere.
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<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=24908">Bad days in the lab or with glassware?</a></strong>
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The only chemistry-related nightmare I've had was the one where I was about to do my candidacy exam (at my university, there were three big exams in
your PhD work- the 502 seminar, the candidacy exam, and the thesis defense, and many people considered the candidacy exam the hardest). The chief
examiner was sitting in the audience wearing a long blonde wig (not very fitting for the masculine Hungarian that he was), and I started to talk about
justice for the third world. Even in my dream, I knew that this was the wrong way to introduce the topic of organorhodium phosphine complexes.
I do still occasionally have bad dreams in which I realize I haven't done any research towards my thesis in years, and my supervisor's gonna kill me.
It usually takes me a few minutes after I've woken up to remember that my thesis was finished and defended many years ago, and I no longer need to any
research towards it.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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Random
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Is manganese dioxide really so bad? I frequently had it on my fingers when I experimented, I hope I don't have manganism because I noticed some
symptoms lately
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I thought manganism was only by ingestion.
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This happened to my dad in grad school. He was hefting a jug into the hood, tinked the bottom against the edge, and it all dropped out. He jumped into
the hood before it hit the floor.
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"Chemicals, chemicals... I need chemicals!" - George Hayduke
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The worst chemistry related insedent iv had happen was when i was refluxing a mixture of KMNo4 solution with some organic upper phase ( i can't
remember what it was any-more) and the flask broke and spilled the contents in to the oil bath which on contact with the contents instantly began to
boil and spray hot oil and KMNO4 solution every were it took ours to clean up and luckily no one was injured.
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Having the bottom of my big bottle of Br2 fall off
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F2 need I say more?
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Mercury spill in the bedroom.
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Pyro
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hehe, you shouldn't even have Hg in the bedroom
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Well, where else am I to keep my hat-making machinery?
On a more on-topic note, how about when my camp burner exploded while bromine was distilling right on top of it?
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Been there; done that.
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A large beaker in which I was dissolving lead metal in boiling nitric acid broke, spilling 2 liters of hot, corrosive, toxic saturated lead nitrate
solution. Fortunately, most of it was contained by preventive measures, but I still couldn't rest before cleaning the fumehood/nearby lab space
meticulously several times over to assure there were no small drops/particles remaining.
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I once saw an individual try to heat a buret with a bunsen burner. By the time I warned him the buret had already cracked.
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I had a small lab fire and destroid part of my desk. still cleaning up, My friend spilled a bottle of KMnO4 on carpet.
I had a hand in a thermite reaction once. Im all better but I still remember...
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Not really what I would consider as "cemistry", but I had the bottom of a 5 gallon carboy of young wine give out. Red wine. House smelled great, but
ruined carpet in a nearby room and did a number on the drywall.
Other than that, H2SO4 burns and dropping a large box of glassware.
[Edited on 14-12-2013 by dontasker]
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Quote: Originally posted by dontasker  | | Not really what I would consider as "cemistry", but I had the bottom of a 5 gallon cardboy of young wine give out. Red wine. House smelled great, but
ruined carpet in a nearby room and did a number on the drywall. |
My mother had a bottle explode while she was out of town...it broke a huge chunk out of one of her full carboys.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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I had a CO2 generator spray HCl all over the lab. Luckily I stepped aside quickly enough to avoid the shower. The good thing about HCl is that it
doesn't leave residue.
Fear is what you get when caution wasn't enough.
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hahahaha I know that feel bro!
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Fantasma4500
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interesting as you can never find what you need when you need it..
came across video of some french scientists of some kind, where they pour some weird fluoride compound onto gloves and all
the video is of some corny quality, when they pour it on the glove i recall it as being a very loud bang
didnt expect anybody to having heard of a person experiencing the H2SO4 thing.. very lucky ..
speaking of H2SO4.. i know a guy who has around 4L 65% H2O2 standing in his garage in a glass jar right next to 165% H2SO4 / 65% oleum, also a 4L jar,
not sure how much is in there
if i just mention piranha mix, do i need to add anything else to get you guys imagining the same things i do??
he worked at a factory where they used it - it closed down - he was a really good worked - 'take what you want' and he did..
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This happened to me once, it was terrible. Luckily it was on a concrete floor.
When the police come
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how big was the bottle?
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It was a 125 mL bottle. There was about 50mL of bromine. It was a huge cleanup. Luckily I had 5 pounds of sodium thiosulfate on hand.
When the police come
\( * O * )/ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'̵͇̿̿з=༼ ▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿ ༽
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well consider yourself lucky! I was referring to my 500ml bottle (450ml Br2)
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