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World's Most Exciting Chemistry Movies
Michael Buckbee writes: "After Dan's page got too slashdotted to view, I ran a quick search on Google for more more fun Ferroliquid sites and stumbled into a collection of movies that I wish had been taken in my chemistry classes. Almost all of the experiment descriptions lean heavily on the phrase "EXTREME DANGER" and many contain other fun words like: "Explosion", "Toxic", "Detonation", and "Diazotization"."
>Almost all of the experiment descriptions lean heavily on
>the phrase "EXTREME DANGER" and many contain other fun
>words like: "Explosion", "Toxic", "Detonation", and "Diazotization"."
Sounds like MSNBC's coverage for the past week...
"Sorta like the 'light my fart' pictures that those morons in high school were always trying to take."
"Blue flames abound, but we were always puzzled by the one guy who produced green flames. Never did figure out how."[emphasis added]
Interesting how "those morons" in the first sentence becomes "we" in the second. I guess that's what happens when one puts people down for doing something one does themselves. 8^}
Cheers,
Zero__Kelvin
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Our HS chem teacher was nice/crazy enough to allow us to do any experiment we wanted as long as it wasnt too dangerous. So I ended up doing the Nitrogen Triiodide experiment. I think I made too much cause we went without using one of the fume hoods for a month. Everyone was too scared to go near the filterpapers because they would spontaneously react. It was fun watching the lower divistion classes jump when some would spark drung a lecture.
How about "World's Most Slashdotted Chemistry Movies" ?
This is the place where you write something that will make you seem like a complete idiot.
It should be quite easy to use mod_rewrite in apache to set it up to respond to all requests where the referer contains "slashdot.org" with a '404 slashdotted' response. Perhaps such a configuration it should come as part of the default apache config ;).
The actor David Duchovny, aka Fox Mulder of X-Files fame, has an unknown, very dark past. This photo proves that he was, during WWII, a member of the Croatian Waffen-SS legion 'Waffen-Gebrigs-Division der SS "Handschar"' (he is the second from the left). Probably it was fears that this dark fact would become known that prompted his dismissal from the TV-series. One can only speculate about the atrocities he has committed and taken part in, as this particular legion, mainly recruted among Bosnian Muslims, was notorious for it's brutality.
MTV Press Release: Following in the footsteps of the controversial show "Jackass," MTV proudly presents a similar show for those of the chemical persuasion: "Jackass Chemistry." Tune in each week to see your favorite nerds mix things that should not be mixed together. Watch the halarious explosions and poisonous gas clouds that follow! For mature audiences only. WIK
Maybe more people would study chemesty if they followed the example of Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics.
In reading some of the comments here, I get the disturbing feeling that what most of us learned in science classes was "How to blow stuff up real good!"
I never had any chemistry classes, but I don't think a day went by in our electronics class when someone did not catch something on fire. My favorite was the day we hooked a 2N2222 randomly up to 120v and watched it light up. Since it only lasted a few milliseconds we decided to liquid cool the sucker.
So, we wired one up, put heat shrink tubing around it, dunked it in a glass of water, and let the current flow. That dude lasted about 25 seconds before all the smoke was let out.
But nothing beats the day I was at my friend Tom's. We were in his lab in his basement and were just goofing around with something on an o-scope. He was rummaging around in the closet for something and ran across some great big 1000V capacitors that came out of some HV power supply. These things were huge. Tom slapped it down on the desk, hooked it up to a power supply, and proceeded to charge it up. I was talking to someone on Tom's 2m ham rig and was watching out of the corner of my eye as he started to throw stuff across the terminals. An aluminum can got two big holes blown in it. a paperclip blew in half. Needless to say what he was doing was causing loads of interferance and I could only get a few words of what I was listening to. I asked the other station to repeat.
Then the interferance really started - though it was not due to the spark gap transmitter that was just a few feet away. It was because of me laughing. Tom got the idea to drop a piece of aluminum foil across the cap and it stuck to the terminals. He reached down to pull the tin foil off and burned his hand, yelled "damn! that's hot!" then picked up the cap and tossed it back in the closet. I was laughing so hard I had to sign off cause I could not talk for about 5 minutes.
How I wish that had been a Kodak Moment.