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So I got hydrochloric acid in my eyes today..
2004-12-02, 12:21 PM #1
In chemistry. Believe me, it was lots of fun, and not as bad as you might think. I was actually wearing my safety goggles, but the acid somehow managed to splash under the goggles and into my eye. I ran over to the emergency eyewash, threw my goggles off and turned on the water. It was a pretty interesting eyewash too, and water went everywhere in the classroom.

Pretty exciting. I'm the only person I know who's had acid in their eyes. And that's how Daredevil got his powers, when those uh chemicals splashed into his eyes, so maybe I'll get superpowers.

I'm alright though, my eyes are completely fine, so no need to worry about me although flowers are still welcome :p

In conclusion, that was a pretty rambly post, but post your own crazy chemistry experiences.
2004-12-02, 12:25 PM #2
Well the stuff they use in school labs is supposed to be very weak, no superpowers for you.
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2004-12-02, 12:25 PM #3
Wow.. that's bad my lab partner in grade 9 did the same thing to herself... it was diluted but still not fun.
2004-12-02, 12:27 PM #4
i once put acid under my eyelid.
2004-12-02, 12:28 PM #5
That's okay I put acid under my tounge once.
2004-12-02, 12:34 PM #6
Ouch! That does sound pretty nasty. I guess it wasn't very concentrated, was it?


I was transferring some samples to a test tube filled with PFA (paraformaldehyde solution). They were tiny samples, and I was tapping the tube with my finger, looking at it against a light, to see if I succeeded in transferring them there. I did this very close to my eye, and obviously I tapped the tube too forcefully, and I got a spill straight to my eye.

It didn't feel good at all, and I couldn't be bothered to remember right at that moment where the eye washing bottle was, so I ran to the nearest sink. Unfortunately some plumbing work was being done, or something, and the water was all rust filled. I didn't notice it until I had washed my eye with the brown water... Well, after that I went and used a big bottle of the eye washing water.

And I didn't get any superpowers either :(
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2004-12-02, 12:34 PM #7
My science teacher told us a story about how in grade ten he did something stupid with Hydrochloric Acid.

He ran up to the table, and took a huge sniff of it. The sudden smell caused his arms to fly up (Including the arm that was holding the vial) and splashed it all over himself.
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2004-12-02, 12:35 PM #8
In one of my college physics labs we had contests to see who could hold their fingers in liquid nitrogen the longest...
2004-12-02, 12:38 PM #9
Quote:
Originally posted by DSettahr
In one of my college physics labs we had contests to see who could hold their fingers in liquid nitrogen the longest...


So, how many fingers did you lose, before you won?
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2004-12-02, 12:41 PM #10
The only stupid thing i did in chemistry was completely destroy a lab table by setting it on fire. ( Chemical reaction of some kind run amok)

I also spilled sodium hydroxide (lye) on my hand in an experiment once, but that was more of an accident. Fight club was right... it does hurt like f***.
I stupidly made it worse by trying to wash it off with water. I now have a nice scar there.
2004-12-02, 12:41 PM #11
Craftsmen should di that, who needs hammers when you have rock solid fingers
nope.
2004-12-02, 12:44 PM #12
We've thrown different chemicals through a bunsen flame to see what colours we could get, but that's about it.
2004-12-02, 12:46 PM #13
Quote:
Originally posted by Boco
Craftsmen should di that, who needs hammers when you have rock solid fingers


You have seen those movies where some body parts get treated with liquid nitrogen, and then they just fall apart into little pieces, when smashed? It really works like that.

But don't trust those movies where iron bars disintegrate...
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2004-12-02, 12:50 PM #14
I nearly set a bottle of hexane on fire then we were playing with the power packs. We were trying to light a piece of paper soaked in the stuff, and WHOOM. Instant burning. Not good when your teacher's watching.
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2004-12-02, 12:51 PM #15
Quote:
Originally posted by lassev
So, how many fingers did you lose, before you won?


Liquid nitrogen isn't as dangerous as many people seem to think. It's not going to freeze your hand solid or anything. Your hand is too warm, so it's just going to evaporate as soon as it touches you.

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I nearly set a bottle of hexane on fire then we were playing with the power packs. We were trying to light a piece of paper soaked in the stuff, and WHOOM. Instant burning. Not good when your teacher's watching.


Setting fire to gas taps is amusing, it shoots out a huge flame.

Also, a great way to impress the girls is to pour alcohol on your hand and then set fire to it. It burns with a large flame, but it only burns off the alcohol and won't burn your hand. much.
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2004-12-02, 12:55 PM #16
I use HCl instead of Visene.
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2004-12-02, 12:57 PM #17
Quote:
Originally posted by DeTRiTiC-iQ
Well the stuff they use in school labs is supposed to be very weak, no superpowers for you.


Hmmm... we got to use 25 molar HCl in grade 12... and I managed to burn myself with it.

Other than that; I also have the story about accidentally creating bromine gas... or the time when I got sulfuric acid in my mouth... good times.
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2004-12-02, 12:58 PM #18
I drink citric acid.
2004-12-02, 1:00 PM #19
I got banned from being within three feet of fire :( :( :(

I burned/melted/exploded things
2004-12-02, 1:01 PM #20
Quote:
Originally posted by Mort-Hog
Liquid nitrogen isn't as dangerous as many people seem to think. It's not going to freeze your hand solid or anything. Your hand is too warm, so it's just going to evaporate as soon as it touches you.


Indeed. The temperature of the liquid nitrogen would also matter, the closer to the point of evaporation, the safer. Nitrogen's themal conductivity would also be a factor, which is 0.026 w/mK, horrible.
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2004-12-02, 1:07 PM #21
Worst ive done it melted a test tube, although my teacher is coll, makes jokes, takes the crap outta people, sets fire to things like gas taps and is gonna help us make thermite at the end of the year
nope.
2004-12-02, 2:01 PM #22
Quote:
Originally posted by Mort-Hog
Liquid nitrogen isn't as dangerous as many people seem to think. It's not going to freeze your hand solid or anything. Your hand is too warm, so it's just going to evaporate as soon as it touches you.


I have used enough (= a lot) it to have a realistic conception... Whilst you are right by saying it's not as dangerous as many might think, it's still pretty neat stuff.

If you dip your hand in a pool of liquid nitrogen in a vacuum jug... Well, good luck evaporating it away... :p
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2004-12-02, 2:32 PM #23
In chem labs I have: blown up a test tube, almost set my hair on fire, and poured 12 M NaOH on my hands. Nothing out of the ordinary, at least for my class...
2004-12-02, 2:47 PM #24
Quote:
Originally posted by kyle90
Hmmm... we got to use 25 molar HCl in grade 12... and I managed to burn myself with it.

Other than that; I also have the story about accidentally creating bromine gas... or the time when I got sulfuric acid in my mouth... good times.


TWENTY-FIVE MOLAR?!

You sho' bout dat? I mean, dang...

Besides, why so high a conc?!
2004-12-02, 3:23 PM #25
The most concentrated HCl I've used in lab is 12 molar. The thing that ticks me off the most is that I got something on my jeans in chem lab the other day, and now the jeans have a big hole in them.:mad: They were really comfortable too.
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2004-12-02, 3:31 PM #26
I was fying chopped chillis once when a seed jumped out of the pan straight into the inner corner of my eye. The scalding oil and the acid in the seed made for one of the most painful experiences of my life. I had to keep my eye open under running water for about twenty minutes before it stopped burning. After that my eye was so sensitive I could feel every shift in air flow in the room.
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2004-12-02, 3:34 PM #27
Never hurt myself in a lab. We did pour liquid nitrogen on our hands in physics lab, but it just evaporated away like you said.
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2004-12-02, 3:35 PM #28
I never get to use acid. :(
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2004-12-02, 3:43 PM #29
In my chem classes, our safty glasses have no gaps underneath for splashes to go through.


My chem teacher is strange,

she has no problem with putting large chnks of sodium into water to observe the reaction but she has a "phobia" (her words, just a joke though) of Hydrofluric acid because although it is chemicaly weaker than HCl, something about it (probably the fact that it has hydrogen bonds) makes HF destroy human flesh.

Also, I have never done anything like that. but I was one of only three groups that when making an ester, got it to smell like what it should. Mine smelt like wintergreen, the other group of students that had theirs work smelt like pineapple (it didn't work fully so it smelt more like rotten pineapple) and the teacher's who had her's smell like cherry.
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2004-12-02, 3:53 PM #30
however, one of my friends had an amusing experiance,

in highschool one time, he was doing a prac with bunsen burners (in a group obviously) but the valve that stops the gas from going back through the pipe was not working, so when the bunsen was lit, every bunsen in the school had a flame shoot out. he said it was very funny. noone was hurt though.
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2004-12-02, 4:10 PM #31
Quote:
Originally posted by alpha1
...she has a "phobia" (her words, just a joke though) of Hydrofluric acid because although it is chemicaly weaker than HCl, something about it (probably the fact that it has hydrogen bonds) makes HF destroy human flesh.


HF is actually a rather unique acid, because it corrodes glass (in addition to human flesh :rolleyes: ). HCL, H2SO4, HNO3 and other ordinary acids you can very well keep in glass bottles, even the very concentrated ones. But not HF.
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2004-12-02, 4:11 PM #32
We used to have competitions where during the middle of a class 2 people sitting at opposite sides of the classroom would turn their bunsen burner gas things on with nothing connected to them. Whoever didnt get in trouble from the teacher when he smelled it was the winner.
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2004-12-02, 6:41 PM #33
Once my chem teacher purposefully spilled an alcohol/water solution across an entire lab table and lit it ablaze. It was awesome.
2004-12-02, 7:34 PM #34
Large amounts of crumbled paradichlorobenzene (that acrid smelling stuff they put in urinals) and an open flame = good fun. Large orangey flames! Just make sure the teacher isn't watching. :p
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2004-12-02, 7:40 PM #35
We've worked with 18M H2SO4 during aspirin synthesis. The lab technician came out with a closed container of it, with these big damn gloves on and what looked like a welder's face shield (except with a transluscent windows on the front), and we were all looking at each with our latex gloves and cheap lab googles, wondering if it was even worth it to keep them on. :p

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2004-12-02, 7:41 PM #36
Well, I found out if you leave zinc powder on paper towels, they spontaneously start on fire... I kind of set a trash can on fire...
2004-12-02, 7:46 PM #37
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Originally posted by Trigger Happy Chewie
Well, I found out if you leave zinc powder on paper towels, they spontaneously start on fire... I kind of set a trash can on fire...

Hmm, I'll remember that, that could be handy some day ;)
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2004-12-02, 7:47 PM #38
One time I was with my friend and we were lighting a bunson burner... but we left it on for a minute or five before we lit it.

There was a halo of fire that shot from the bottom of the bunson burner, and a 2 foot tall mushroom cloud.

That was crazy.
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2004-12-02, 7:55 PM #39
We got to play with 6M HCl and solid NaOH to make some other solutions today, which was fun because none of our flasks have proper stoppers so there was leakage everywhere.
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2004-12-02, 8:22 PM #40
Well...when I had Chem. our teacher was a huge stoner so he did stupid stuff all the time....like shove a ball in a tube with alcohol and lit a hole on the side...it went across the entire class with a 2 ft flame trail....it was frigging awesome....and my lab partners were stupid....we always burnt ourselves, caught our papers on fire, and had random acts of stupidity.....like smelling burning magnesium ( only to be told it hurts your lungs a min later) ,ect :p
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