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Post by trailboss on Mar 7, 2020 15:55:47 GMT -5
Of Hazmat disposal.
Years later, if they died of lung cancer, smoking pipes or cigars wold undoubtedly be blamed.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 7, 2020 16:13:57 GMT -5
!  Charlie last night wife and I streamed Dark Waters, fascinating movie about a law suit against DuPont, I highly recommend it. Farmer and Cattleman in West Virginia has his cattle die and have abnormal growths on their organs. Really shows how these companies are entwined with our government. Pisses you off ! |
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 7, 2020 16:14:43 GMT -5
So much for high school chemistry.
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Post by Darin on Mar 7, 2020 16:46:02 GMT -5
Oxymoron of the week! LOL This was one of my favorite things to do for the Organic Chem class when I was a teaching assistant. It always worked to grab their attention and show that chemistry can be "cool".  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 7, 2020 16:55:37 GMT -5
Oxymoron of the week! LOL This was one of my favorite things to do for the Organic Chem class when I was a teaching assistant. It always worked to grab their attention and show that chemistry can be "cool". One of my teachers didn't have any flour for the "explosiveness of minute particles" demonstration, so he grabbed flour of sulpher instead. Blew the windows out of the lab. Store Sodium in diesel fuel and potassium in water. |
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Post by Stearmandriver on Mar 7, 2020 17:34:41 GMT -5
The mist falling on distant cars ate the paint off of them...
... but "little effect" on the lake and its wildlife??
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Post by Darin on Mar 7, 2020 17:39:09 GMT -5
Oxymoron of the week! LOL This was one of my favorite things to do for the Organic Chem class when I was a teaching assistant. It always worked to grab their attention and show that chemistry can be "cool". One of my teachers didn't have any flour for the "explosiveness of minute particles" demonstration, so he grabbed flour of sulpher instead. Blew the windows out of the lab. Store Sodium in diesel fuel and potassium in water. WOW!  Was anyone injured in that? I was kicked out of a Hardee's once for demonstrating this technique using powdered coffee creamer. LOL |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 7, 2020 18:12:09 GMT -5
The mist falling on distant cars ate the paint off of them... ... but "little effect" on the lake and its wildlife?? Hey! They said that the lake was devoid of fish, so it's all good! It's not like that it would leach into the aquifer or other species would be affected.  I guess you have to understand in all this that they may have not understood the long term effects...they may have had an inkling, but looking back now it is easy to pass judgment. I have to admit, I it must have been pretty cool to watch that live....but I like booms, and ka-booms. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 7, 2020 18:13:11 GMT -5
In Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush decided that there were no such thing as hazardous chemicals...and to prove it he had the legislature remove the Hazardous Chemical Laws that were in place to provide help to workers who were exposed to chemical hazards. No hazardous chemicals so no need for hazardous chemical list. Just your government looking out for ya!
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Post by trailboss on Mar 7, 2020 18:22:46 GMT -5
Jeb was the dimmest bulb in the Bush basket....and he worked hard to cement that truth.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 7, 2020 18:28:37 GMT -5
Jeb was the dimmest bulb in the Bush basket....and he worked hard to cement that truth. No. That "distinction" goes to his brother, Neal Bush. The Director of Silverado Savings & Loan Association in Colorado. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 7, 2020 18:32:51 GMT -5
It's a close call between Neal and George W.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 7, 2020 18:41:32 GMT -5
It's a close call between Neal and George W. Not a huge fan of W, but he was smart enough to get elected as POTUS twice, Neal would be lucky to be a valet to Mittens. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 7, 2020 19:03:09 GMT -5
You got me there!^^^^
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Post by trailboss on Mar 7, 2020 19:08:12 GMT -5
Oxymoron of the week! LOL This was one of my favorite things to do for the Organic Chem class when I was a teaching assistant. It always worked to grab their attention and show that chemistry can be "cool". What a chemically treated rabblerouser! I remember periodically when you would hear of a science class going out of control. I remember a chemistry teacher in Kansas that took the students to a lake and did the sodium experiment, caught the dry reeds on fire and hustled everyone back in the class...he was a WWII/ Vietnam vet that would have had the class doing explosives if given the chance....I remember my dad talking about the story and said that while he did not know the guy personally....he knew the guy. |
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Post by Darin on Mar 7, 2020 19:19:38 GMT -5
I know a guy that knows a guy who likes explosions.  Bad chemistry joke / pun: They asked me if I had dumped Sodium in the lake. I told them no ... but it was a "lye". |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 7, 2020 19:34:53 GMT -5
One of my teachers didn't have any flour for the "explosiveness of minute particles" demonstration, so he grabbed flour of sulpher instead. Blew the windows out of the lab. Store Sodium in diesel fuel and potassium in water. WOW! Was anyone injured in that? I was kicked out of a Hardee's once for demonstrating this technique using powdered coffee creamer. LOL It was kind of a big "whump". I think a girl broke her glasses or something, then there was all the sulpher dioxide we were breathing. That was only one of that teachers misadventures. Today it would have been on the news and we all would have been rushed to the hospital, but I don't think that any permanent harm was done. I know that he got chewed out by the principle but we mostly thought that it was funny. There was the time that he was pouring nitric acid while my friend was holding the funnel, when another student distracted him with a question. He poured it all over the my friends hands. But the absolute scariest thing was that he was the school bus driver. That was truly terrifying! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 7, 2020 19:55:56 GMT -5
We had an assistant Explorer Advisor that took us fishing with dynamite. It was fine as long as he used a quarter stick. Of course, we pushed him to use a whole stick and that was the end of that. I do believe that we got every fish that was in the pond though. And most of the water too. But honestly, my friend and I were the worst. We made nitro glycerin and then spent the rest of the day figuring out how to safely dispose of it. We recreated a Mushroom cloud in the classroom with just denatured alcohol, boiling parifin and a bunsen burner. Left a 10 foot across black circle on the ceiling but no one ever said anything about it. And so much more. 😜🤠
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Post by Darin on Mar 7, 2020 20:15:53 GMT -5
LOL ... good times!  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 7, 2020 21:23:57 GMT -5
Well, it was the "Good Old Days". It helps to be young. Memories are golden.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 21:52:06 GMT -5
No big deal a few superfund sites for the convenience of the modern world. For the most part the folks that made the superfund sites now get paid to clean them up. And you thought Lockheed just made airplanes. Magnesium and water is great fun you just have to be more creative and no I will not divulge my source for Magnesium.
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 7, 2020 23:34:04 GMT -5
No fond memories of the days of acid rain. And was it the Cleveland River that you could roast marshmallows over at night?
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 8, 2020 2:04:42 GMT -5
No big deal a few superfund sites for the convenience of the modern world. For the most part the folks that made the superfund sites now get paid to clean them up. And you thought Lockheed just made airplanes. Magnesium and water is great fun you just have to be more creative and no I will not divulge my source for Magnesium. You have to light the magnesium before you put it in the water. Otherwise you just get a slow reaction to magnesium oxide. Store it in air and it develops its own coating like aluminum. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 8, 2020 2:06:50 GMT -5
There are a few superfund sites within 20 miles of me. I know where they are, but I will bet that within 10 years a Houston developer will be building subdivisions on top of them for the newcomers.
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Post by Stearmandriver on Mar 8, 2020 3:09:01 GMT -5
Magnesium will certainly burn in water, but it doesn't do much otherwise. Potassium and sodium are the ones that explode, right?
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 8, 2020 8:12:55 GMT -5
I had a high school friend that was a complete idiot. For a while, he was into making black powder grenades. He'd fill one of his dad's empty pill bottles with powder, add a wick and seal it with wax, then wrap the whole thing in lots of duct tape.
It wasn't so bad when he just tossed one in the street, but he thought he'd be clever and scare a couple of our other friends. Their bedroom window was at the front of the house, so this idiot snuck up there at night and put a bomb on their windowsill.
Blew the whole window out and showered them with broken glass.
Haven't spoken to him since he called me wanting to know how far away the moon was. He had watched a movie about an asteroid heading for the earth, and as it passed the moon was still ten minutes from impact. He thought that was really stupid because the moon's like what, five miles away? He thought the atmosphere was about a mile thick. How many things do you have to know nothing about to believe that??
Anything about NASA, Mount Everest, Denver CO etc etc. Oh and, btw: 240,000 to 400,000 miles away in it's elliptical orbit.
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Post by kbareit on Mar 8, 2020 9:06:35 GMT -5
No fond memories of the days of acid rain. And was it the Cleveland River that you could roast marshmallows over at night? It was the Cuyahoga river in Cleveland that caught fire in 69. I'm surprised the Mahoning river in Youngstown Oh. didn't have the same happen because of all the steel mills that dumped waste in it and it wasn't a very large river. They are supposed to begin dredging to clean it up but don't think I'll see it in my lifetime. |
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Post by Darin on Mar 8, 2020 9:54:42 GMT -5
Magnesium and water is great fun you just have to be more creative and no I will not divulge my source for Magnesium. Old laptop computer frames? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 8, 2020 10:02:04 GMT -5
Magnesium and water is great fun you just have to be more creative and no I will not divulge my source for Magnesium. Old laptop computer frames? Or the cases for Victor Comtograph 10 key adding machines? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 8, 2020 10:04:16 GMT -5
One of my fellow scouts did the grenade thing with film canisters and phosphorus. They were really pretty until one landed on a parent's new Pontiac.
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Charlie last night wife and I streamed Dark Waters, fascinating movie about a law suit against DuPont, I highly recommend it. Farmer and Cattleman in West Virginia has his cattle die and have abnormal growths on their organs. Really shows how these companies are entwined with our government. Pisses you off !
