Group,

This discussion brings back some old memories for me as well from my Chemistry
Class in the early 1960's. One day, the teacher took a beaker of gasoline and
lit a match. He then proceeded to extinguish the match by dunking it in the
gasoline. All of us students thought we dead, but as it turned out, the match
was 'safely' extinguished as if it had been dunked in water.

I doubt if this experiment is still used today.

Good day,

Richard I. Pittenger
Agency Approval Engineer
Food Retail Systems
Hobart
Ph: 937-332-2621
Fax: 937-332-3204
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James, Chris
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:18 PM
To: Larry Stillings
Cc: Pete Perkins; PSNet
Subject: Re: Safety requirements for schools

That was common practise in my day. It was our chemistry master who
went one better while producing hydrogen in a large semi john. He lit
the end of tube before allowing all the air to purge.

Big flash and explosion, glass and acid everywhere, but amazingly in a
class of 30 kids there were no injuries.

No inquiry or follow up either but then this was the 60's.

Chris

On 19 Feb 2010, at 01:40, "Larry Stillings" <[email protected]
 > wrote:

> Don't lite the gas valves directly that connect to the rubber hoses
> that go
> to the bunsen burners. I saw that done in 7th grade, fortunately the
> student
> didn't blow up the school and all my classmates.
>
> sorry just had to comment.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Perkins [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:07 PM
> To: PSNet
> Subject: Safety requirements for schools
>
> PSNet,
>
>    As part of some technical committee work we are doing it would be
> helpful if anyone could share knowledge of safety requirements in
> secondary
> schools (junior-high, middle, or high schools), especially as they
> might
> relate to educational use of laboratory or test equipment.
>
> br,    Pete
>
>    Peter E Perkins, PE
>    Principal Product Safety & Regulatory Consultant
>    Tigard, ORe  97281-3427
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