Wasn't there someone a while back that said they spilled 80 molar HCl all over their hand? Dj Yoshi maybe? I wonder if he has a hand left.

just put zinc powder in a paper bag full of some firecrackers and watch the show.

(from a safe distance, or course)

Well, I haven't had any crazy chem experiences, but I have seen a kid snort pepper off a lunch table.

Ever put pepper down your pants? I've heard that it's a real bad idea from a few different people.

WHAT>?

What...

I've gotten copper sulfate (Cu2So4 maybe? Can't remember) in my mouth and that was horrible. It tasted like someone cut my tongue off for about 5 hours (very coppery-tasting). The taste would not go away no matter how much I rinsed.

Worse thing I ever did was drink toliet cleaner... had to go to the hospital for that.

Heh.. I did the same thing only with Windex. :p

I won't ask.

Man you guys only got to use the crap acids... We got to use Nitric Acid.... A friend of mine decided he wanted to burn a number 4 in his hand... What an idiot.

Did he pass out, or what? I think it should be possible to do such a thing.

The only accident with acid I have seen, was some girl spilling HNO3 on her hand(s). She got pretty fast out of the lab and to the health center.

One purely funny thing was when a friend of mine poured a good amount of very concentrated formic acid in a regular sink (not in a hood). I didn't know he did it, and I just walked there to wash my hands or something. But there was a cloud of formic acid vapor in the air, and it felt like somebody had really bashed me straight on the face. Everybody should once experience that kind of thing!

Where did you get that stuff? I know you could make it, but . . . the highest concentration I have ever touched is 12 mol HCl. And that is vaporous enough.

Who is it that drinks tide?

Cazor.

I have to drink windex...keeps me from streaking.

(<3 Amazing Jonathan)

Aw, I never got to have any real fun by myself in chemestry class...:(

However, one of my favorite experiences was a high school chemestry teacher borrowing $100US from a student, only to light it on fire. Of course, it had been soaked in rubbing alchohol prior to being lit, but the look on that particular students face? Priceless.

And then there was the professor of my quantitative biology class, (introductory) that during one lecture, was lighting a variety of objects on fire... He covered the lecture table with alchohol, and lit it... The resulting line of flame was nice to look at, though it burned out too quickly...

I'm a big fan of thermite reactions.


If I remember right, concentrated HCl is 12M.. How (and more importantly, why) would anything above this be made?

LMAO

Well, the 25M stuff was for some experiment in organic chemistry. I'm pretty sure that the stuff in the stock bottles is 12M, and if you want any more you have to order it seperately. Basically, there was a tiny little vial of it with an eyedropper in the fume hood. For part of the experiment, you had to add one drop to a test tube. Naturally enough, when I was getting it, I waited until the teacher wasn't looking and then dripped some on some metal. PPPPSSSSSTTT...... the metal dissolved. Wow, cool, I thought. So I kept dripping it on as much metal as I could find... I ended up even taking the zipper pull off my binder so I could melt it. Then I noticed the teacher looking so I figured I had better continue on with the experiment. I picked up the vial so I could aim the eyedropper, and when I was replacing the eyedropper, a bit dripped down the side and onto my hand.

It's a strange thing, being burnt by acid. For a couple of seconds you don't notice anything. Then it feels warm. Then all of a sudden it starts to burn like crazy. Fortunately, as soon as I noticed it on my hand, I made a direct path to the sink and managed to get my hand under the running water just after it started to burn.

Me too... once...

how long did the room smell like stomped ants? :p

drank a whole gallon of dihydrogen monoxide once.

OMG!

Pommy r teh insane.

Oh yeah? I once drank a gallon of hydrogen dioxygen!

I think the most concentrated stuff I've worked with was 6M Nitric acid.

Haven't made any dangerous mistakes in any lab experiences so far, and I think this semester is the last time I have to take chem lab ever. My last lab of the semester was last tuesday.

What the hell? HO2?

I drank a gallon of H2O2 once >.>

hydrogen peroxide

Yeah. That's how Gandalf the Gray really turned into Gandalf the White...