How Not to Do It: Liquid Oxygen Cylinders

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by Evgeny • 16 years ago

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Wow, and Darwin came up empty-handed. Amazing. Blew a O2 dewar in their truck, crashed through an apartment, broke a gas line, and no deaths.

patio11• 16 years ago

This reminds me of high school: "Chemistry teachers have all the fun." It seems like they have all made a deal with the devil (or school board... which may be redundant): covalent bonds, redox equations, and titration are boring beyond all speaking of it. None of you want to teach it. I'll teach it. In return, you will give me a materials budget, and I will blow stuff up.

colonelxc• 16 years ago

I enjoyed the titration lab :-(

Maybe boring when you have to do it often, but I enjoyed watching the liquid all of the sudden change colors.

wallflower• 16 years ago

This reminds me of the students who attempted to flush an elemental Lithium compound down a toilet. Lithium is extremely reactive in an exothermic manner with water. Lithium floats.

How Not to Do It: Liquid Oxygen Cylinders

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