• Question: Have you ever blown something up in an experiment?

    Asked by dracodino300 to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Duncan Hull

      Duncan Hull answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Not yet, but we used to do fat fires at school, great fun!

      http://www.practicalchemistry.org/experiments/fat-pan-fire,228,EX.html

    • Photo: Darren Nesbeth

      Darren Nesbeth answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      A small plastic tube. It was a silly prank which I would not recommend.

    • Photo: Michelle Hudson-Shore

      Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Not as far as I can remember but I used to like watching my chemistry teacher blow things up in practical demonstrations.

    • Photo: Lori-An Etherington

      Lori-An Etherington answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      No, my research doesn’t involve blowing things up – at least it shouldn’t 🙂

    • Photo: Deuan Jones

      Deuan Jones answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Only at school thankfully. The day before my interview for my PhD though, our containment lab went on fire and the fire brigade had a massive argument over whether to put it out or whether to let it burn to the ground to make sure all the human-infectious parasites were killed. Eventually one of the scientists had to go in with the firemen and tell them which things were dangerous as they put the fire out. It was a mess.

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