Nihal
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Methinks too much alcohol Rocky....
Chemistry HMW help please?
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Lullabelle
Banana
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- Midlands UK
Methyl alcohol is my tipple choice
By the way, young scholars, here's a question. Why do you give someone who has methyl alcohol poisoning a huge drink of ethyl alcohol?
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young Ed
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long day? early bed time tonight!Methyl alcohol is my tipple choice
By the way, young scholars, here's a question. Why do you give someone who has methyl alcohol poisoning a huge drink of ethyl alcohol?
Cheers Ed
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Watch it doesn't give you, er, Brian damage ...Methyl alcohol is my tipple choice
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
Ooh ooh, I know sir!Methyl alcohol is my tipple choice
By the way, young scholars, here's a question. Why do you give someone who has methyl alcohol poisoning a huge drink of ethyl alcohol?
But I'm a chemist, not a young scholar so I won't give the game away.
It's also used for antifreeze poisoning...
When I first started teaching, there was a story within the dept. staff of about a decade before where a pupil got some particularly nasty potassium burns.
Apparently he nicked a lump from the lesson and shoved it in his pocket, as we all know, it's stored in oil to stop it reacting with moisture unwantedly, so he was ok at first.
As the day wore on though, the oil wore off until at lunch as he played football and got a bit of a sweat on it started to react, where it resided in his trouser pocket.
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Needless to say, I imagine potassium and water reacting next to peter and the twins wasn't comfortable.
There was also a craze in the states a fair while back where you would buy an industrial size lump of it and get your mate to drive bloody fast past a lake whilst you lobbed it in out of the sun roof.... Think bouncing bomb with multiple detonations and lightning like flashes. Think you can still get the vids on youtube.
Apparently he nicked a lump from the lesson and shoved it in his pocket, as we all know, it's stored in oil to stop it reacting with moisture unwantedly, so he was ok at first.
As the day wore on though, the oil wore off until at lunch as he played football and got a bit of a sweat on it started to react, where it resided in his trouser pocket.
.Needless to say, I imagine potassium and water reacting next to peter and the twins wasn't comfortable.
There was also a craze in the states a fair while back where you would buy an industrial size lump of it and get your mate to drive bloody fast past a lake whilst you lobbed it in out of the sun roof.... Think bouncing bomb with multiple detonations and lightning like flashes. Think you can still get the vids on youtube.
That story sure got around...
Julia9054
Legendary Member
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- Knaresborough
I managed to set fire to my school bag when I was a student teacher. I was doing a demo of potassium in water and put too large a piece. It spat, popped, burst into flames and jumped out of the bowl and straight into my bag!
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
Individuals chucking little bits in aren't as spectacular as the US government disposing of its wartime stocks of sodium in a lake...
http://io9.com/5888324/watch-30000-pounds-of-sodium-explode-in-a-frozen-lake
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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- Back up north
I remember the days - putting in too big a lump, stuff spattered all over the inside of the fume cupboard with a bang much bigger than I was expecting.
Me: silent and shaking slightly
Kids: Ooooh! Do it again, miss! Use a bigger bit!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
When I first started teaching, there was a story within the dept. staff of about a decade before where a pupil got some particularly nasty potassium burns.
Apparently he nicked a lump from the lesson and shoved it in his pocket, as we all know, it's stored in oil to stop it reacting with moisture unwantedly, so he was ok at first.
As the day wore on though, the oil wore off until at lunch as he played football and got a bit of a sweat on it started to react, where it resided in his trouser pocket.
Needless to say, I imagine potassium and water reacting next to peter and the twins wasn't comfortable.
That's tame.
A young pain in the butt pupil at a school where I worked stole a whole stick of sodium from the the teacher's bench when the teacher went in to the prep room. He too kept it in his trouser pocket, wrapped in a paper towel, and smuggled it out of the classroom.
He had second thoughts about his crime and decided to dispose of the evidence. Clearly he hadn't paid attention in the lesson because he chose to dispose of it in a toilet bowl in the boys' toilets adjacent to the deputy head's office.
The deputy head was working quietly away when young Wayne, he had to be called Wayne - most scrotes are, did the deed. There was a god almighty bang and the deputy head rushed into the toilet to find Wayne staggering around, shocked and confused and the toilet booth wet with the aerosol generated by the explosion.
I had a sneaking admiration for the boy as he'd out done my own explosion with sodium when I was a pupil. I merely managed to destroy the sink's water trap with my hazelnut sized piece of sodium.
Wayne's deed was rewarded with a few day's exclusion.
I just got a major bollocking from the teacher.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
I want to give this ten likes but the system won't let me. Will you repost it another nine times?
Smartarse time...
When I sat my finals for the radiography exams, the electrolytic recovery of silver was the big topic.
Using a simple diagram and chemical equation I could answer the question in about 5 minutes and guarantee full marks... thus gaining fifteen minutes for the other questions
When I sat my finals for the radiography exams, the electrolytic recovery of silver was the big topic.
Using a simple diagram and chemical equation I could answer the question in about 5 minutes and guarantee full marks... thus gaining fifteen minutes for the other questions
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young Ed
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any specific technique i could apply in my exams as a bit of a slow coach normally?
Cheers Ed
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
There's so little writing to do in GCSE science exams that any further contraction of the answers would eliminate the facts along with the padding.
