On January 9, 2017 9:30:57 PM CST, Mark Linimon <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:48:14PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: >> YIKES! 200 ml? Nowadays, that would cause everybody from the EPA to >> Homeland Security to get involved! > >I'm not sure the statute of limitations has run out on what my friend >(we'll call him "Joe") and I got up to in high school chemistry. > >But in today's edition of Did You Know: > > Did You Know that canisters labeled Hydrogen act differently than > canisters labeled Helium? > >mcl
oh ya... and Did You Know that those little rubber bumps on the top of a 3/4" test tube stopper can inflate to about 4" diameter before they burst when they are used to try to stop the flow of natural gas from the spigot that supplies a Bunsen burner? Did You Know you can evacuate 600 students in about 5 minutes due to "gas leak"? These are the things you learn while having to _wait_ (and wait and wait) to use the Teletype 33 and dialup modem in the room next to the little chemistry lab. cje -- Chris Elmquist
