9 Jan
2017
9 Jan
'17
8:31 p.m.
On January 9, 2017 9:30:57 PM CST, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:48:14PM -0600, Jon Elson
wrote:
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
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