@BigBuggyBastage
It was the newest and greatest lab in the state. A showpiece of “what we can do” for college. The explanation i got was not having a drain under the emergency shower discouraged people from playing with showers or using them instead of the door showers (yeah, that checks) and also meant there would always be evidence if someone had used it. But the labs had to have them for compliance. Like, - they were meant to ‘inspire safety’ and prevent abuse, instead of being there in case they were needed, and so that anyone auditing the labs would see a shower and check the box. But the audit didn’t require drains - just shower heads. Job’s a gud ’un.
dang, just flashbacked again … that’s a good drawing of someone getting hit with “this makes things go away”.
Turned out someone felt the “make hydrogen” reaction was going to slow, so they went into the “do not enter” locker and grabbed a bottle of 12 molar hydrochloric acid to “speed it up”, which it very much did. He opened his hood all the way (dumb), pulled out the thistle funnel (thus letting room air aka oxygen in with the hydrogen) and poured, like, WAY too much 2HCl into the open mouth of the flask. Oh, while simultaneously waving a bunsen burner back and forth across the whole setup to “speed it up some more”.
Sounds like a recipe for fun! :D
Got yelled at for turning on the emergency shower ‘cause there’s no drain in the floor.
LoL wut? That seems like an oversight, to put it lightly; I have to assume this lab wasn’t originally intended as such when it was built.
3rd ? Literally my first day in chem lab at college. Ha ha ha wow the explosion made the evening news. Not my fault, I was just in the lab for class. Talking to some football player a foot taller and wider than me, Theres a PSSSSSSSTpop sound behind him and someone starts screaming. He turns around to see what the F is going on and I watch his letter jacket dissolve off of his back like it was tissue paper. Then the welts started growing on his skin. Like - six inch across pillows of blisters across his whole back. So I tore his coat off and stood him under the shower and pulled the “ye shall not touch” chain, hit the “do not touch EVER” alarm which slammed the doors shut to keep the fumes in the lab from filling the building (all the labs were over pressurized to help drive fumes up the hoods) and then started helping more people strip off whatever was melting on them and get them under the shower.
I only lost my shoes. The football player was a perfect shield.
Turned out someone felt the “make hydrogen” reaction was going to slow, so they went into the “do not enter” locker and grabbed a bottle of 12 molar hydrochloric acid to “speed it up”, which it very much did. He opened his hood all the way (dumb), pulled out the thistle funnel (thus letting room air aka oxygen in with the hydrogen) and poured, like, WAY too much 2HCl into the open mouth of the flask. Oh, while simultaneously waving a bunsen burner back and forth across the whole setup to “speed it up some more”.
Zn + 2HCl + O2 + DumbFuck with open flame → ZnCl2(aq) + H20 + screaming and paint burning off the walls.
Also chlorine gas? I guess? Yeah, probably a lot.
Got yelled at for turning on the emergency shower ‘cause there’s no drain in the floor. Also the prof lost the “students in the hospital” pool for the whole year. But I did get a case of beer from the football guy as a thank you, and an A for the quarter for what the prof called “freakishly calm lab technique”.
Growing up on a farm, man. I guess it prepares you for some weird shit.
Anyway, yes. Flashbacks. Instantaneous and powerful. Good comic, brought back vivid memories. That was good beer.
That is one horrible story which I hope doesn’t happen all that often.
It was the newest and greatest lab in the state. A showpiece of “what we can do” for college. The explanation i got was not having a drain under the emergency shower discouraged people from playing with showers or using them instead of the door showers (yeah, that checks) and also meant there would always be evidence if someone had used it. But the labs had to have them for compliance. Like, - they were meant to ‘inspire safety’ and prevent abuse, instead of being there in case they were needed, and so that anyone auditing the labs would see a shower and check the box. But the audit didn’t require drains - just shower heads. Job’s a gud ’un.
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Yes. Insecticide does not just kill insects. It just kills other things more slowly.
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Who you gonna call?