• Question: How many times have your experiments exploded?

    Asked by rosieeee to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Steven Kiddle

      Steven Kiddle answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Never yet, but im sure it’ll happen eventually, if i forget to pierce plastic tubes when i drop them in liquid nitrogen they will explode, but id have to be pretty absent minded

    • Photo: Louise Johnson

      Louise Johnson answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Never – yet!

    • Photo: Yvette Wilson

      Yvette Wilson answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      none:-) oops – apart from the time I left a mercury thermometer in an oven and it exploded. I wasn’t popular. Our lab did nearly go up when there was a hole in the bunsen burner tubing and a colleague burnt herself badly. It was nearly bad, don’t want to think about it too much!

    • Photo: Michaela Livingstone

      Michaela Livingstone answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Never, none of my research uses explosive chemicals. The closest I come is using chemicals that are toxic.

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