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By: Kyle Finchsigmate

Kyle Finchsigmate — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:09:16 +0000

I think that may be a bit of a stretch. But it’s different for everyone.

By: big funkin polar bear

big funkin polar bear — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:23:45 +0000

A nurse told me that one alcohol drink + one dose Valium has roughly the same CNS effects as 6 drinks alone, (or 6 benzos – take you’re pick!) That seems like a very dangerous combination. Anyone have more specific information?

By: big funkin polar bear

big funkin polar bear — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:13:49 +0000

When you’re at the point where pharmacologically induced, bizarre changes in cognition and perception = fun, -you’re in a bad state of mind. You stockpiled Ambien After talking to a shoe???? Find a pshrink!!! I think LSD lost its remaining popularity after the last Grateful Dead tour with Gerry Garcia.

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:19:33 +0000

The famous explosion was April 24 1957 at Indiana University at High School Night . About 225 students, parents teachers and the like witnessed a spectacular powdered aluminum-liquid oxygen demonstration that hospitalized five students and hurt ten others. One student lost an eye and another had a crushed arm. There were some severe cuts that required plastic surgery.

This has become part of chemistry folklore . The incident was written up in J.Chem.Ed. 36, 54-57, 1959, according to Harry G. Day’s book about IU’s chem dept. history.

Speaking of folklore, there was this story about a Brit postdoc who was shot while at a waterfountain by his girlfriend after being chased around a famous chemistry dept. Does anybody know anything about this famous story?

By: excimer

excimer — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:51:31 +0000

Mg combusts in anaerobic conditions: take two blocks of dry ice, scoop out a small hole in one. Place burning Mg ribbon in hole, place other dry ice block on top. Mg still burns. Very, very pretty effect (glowing block!) and it shows that Mg will even remove the oxygen from CO2 to continue burning.

The Halloween one is easy. Just take anything I’ve done in the past week… instablack!

By: milkshake

milkshake — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:34:30 +0000

OK: fill a large transparent plastic bag with oxygen from tank. Place it on a bench far from anything flammable. Lit a small piece of Mg turning. As it burns, ask kiddies to step back. Then drop the burning magnesium onto the oxygen bag. The bag disappears with a puff in a white ball of fire. Lesson: oxygen supports fire. (I heard about a chemistry teacher who did this with a large glass jar filler with O2 and threw a big chunk of burning Mg rod – the jar promptly disintegrated all over the classroom)

Urea peroxide (the peroxide tablets from hair color treatment)mixed with solid sodium dithionite burst into a column of stinky sulfurous smoke when initiated by drop of water or shock (spontaneous combustion)

Na2S2O3.5H2O melts in its crystal water around 50C and makes supersaturated solution. Get a kilo size amount of of thiosulfate, melt it on hot bath then let it slowly cool to room temp undisturbed and covered (to prevent dust from inoculation it). Then with a propper side-illumination seed the liquid with a tiniest crystal and watch the accelerated movie-like action. You can also take a crystal and tie it on a long hair, then dip it and pull it up like one gigantic crystal.

Vanad chameleon: dissolve some ammonium vanadate in diluted sulfuric acid, place it on a stirrer, add some zinc powder and close with a septa or stopper with a long tiny needle as a gas outlet. Watch the numerous color transition as vanadium goes from V(5+) gradually to V(2+)

Fake gold: Prepare hot diluted solution of Pb(OAc)2 and (separately) hot solution of diluted KI. Mix the two together and let cool covered – orange-golden shiny flakes of PbI2 precipitate.

By: Darksyde

Darksyde — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:17:15 +0000

the 1812 overture is pretty effective (time it to the cannon blasts). We did a “holiday” one in high school, a couple of more femininely-persuaded students in my class did a really good job timing it to the frilly-sounding arpeggii in “dance of the sugar plum faeries”. I think they nailed 8 out of the 9 color change beakers.

However, as they discovered, the only way to get it perfect is to make up your solutions from one batch, and very precisely, and do a calibration run just beforehand, to account from batch-to-batch variations, run a quick spreadsheet calculation against known timings on the CD and the calibration timings, and then pray that you didn’t screw up. The longer timings will mess up more than the shorter timings (for obvious reasons).