In middle school, I blew up my science classroom by dropping sodium in a beaker of water (I didn't really understand how tongs worked). That experiment failed spectacularly.
@hallmike Nope, but I thought that was how they worked when my teacher handed me the brick of sodium with the tongs. If it had happened now, instead of in the 90s, he'd have lost his job and I probably would have been arrested. Thankfully, neither happened.
in college i spilled some 18 molar hydrochloric acid on my backpack and didn't realize it. when i went to leave, it had eaten a giant hole in my backpack and ate through all my pens. my hands were stained with ink for days. that experiment sucked.
@carl669 I'll see your hydrochloric acid and raise you sulfuric acid. Besides my backpack having a remarkably similar experience to yours, it ate through my completed lab paper and a bit of skin on my arm. Lucky my prof was there when it happened and kindly accepted my partially eaten paper.
The Amazon merger? Aka the Breakfast Octopus experiment?
I experimented with being Batman once. That failed. Capes just don't look good on me, and the cowl accentuated my chin too much.
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In middle school, I blew up my science classroom by dropping sodium in a beaker of water (I didn't really understand how tongs worked). That experiment failed spectacularly.
@PurplePawprints Were they those backwards tongs where you have to squeeze to let go? I hated those.
@hallmike Nope, but I thought that was how they worked when my teacher handed me the brick of sodium with the tongs. If it had happened now, instead of in the 90s, he'd have lost his job and I probably would have been arrested. Thankfully, neither happened.
in college i spilled some 18 molar hydrochloric acid on my backpack and didn't realize it. when i went to leave, it had eaten a giant hole in my backpack and ate through all my pens. my hands were stained with ink for days. that experiment sucked.
@carl669 I'll see your hydrochloric acid and raise you sulfuric acid. Besides my backpack having a remarkably similar experience to yours, it ate through my completed lab paper and a bit of skin on my arm. Lucky my prof was there when it happened and kindly accepted my partially eaten paper.
@ceagee "No really, my homework ate my homework"