University of Maryland explosion in chemistry building reported

[Bosonic]

Source: ABC7

Prince George’s authorities are reporting that there was an explosion at a chemistry building at the University of Maryland.

Two female students are suffering from first degree burns, authorities said..

There are reports of injuries and a fire inside.

Read more: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2011/09/university-of-maryland-explosion-in-chemistry-building-reported-67067.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Dangerous stuff they work with in those labs

That's why lab supervision and following instructions is so important.

[valerief]

2. Meth lab? nt

[hedgehog]

3. I watched two students in a hurry in Chem 101 expose moth

crystals in a beaker to direct flame contrary to direct instructions. They were supposed to place the beaker in boiling water to melt the crystals and pour them into a waste disposal bin as part of clean-up after a lab. The flames that shot up and sheets of soot that floated around the room were quite impressive.

[gkhouston]

5. LOL, sounds like the guys at the next lab table when I was in high school.

One of them later attended the Air Force Academy. Yeah, I'd like him at the controls of a jet. :scared:

[gkhouston]

4. More likely organic chemistry gone wrong. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

6. First-degree burns.

Lucky.

[hedgehog]

7. I wonder if it's only old farts like myself who immediately thought

this might be a political act?

[Warpy]

8. :"FOOM!" was the sound heard most often in my chemistry labs

and sometimes it was intentional.

[formercia]

9. If I did now, what I did back then.........

I admit, I did get sent home a few times, but those pranks would have gotten me a stiff prison sentence these days.

Getting singed a few times was all part of learning Chemistry.

[separationcs]

10. Add acid TO water......n/c

[Lucky 13]

11. My alma mater

I have performed chem experiments in that very lab.

Hope the girls are ok.

[1620rock]

12. ...and this

little Jimmy was a chemist

little Jimmy is no more

what he thought was H2O

was really H2SO4

[Lynx]

13. Sad to say....

In Freshman year I lived in a dorm with the chem lab in the basement.
Something went wrong. Terribly wrong. The whole dorm smelled like someone lost his lunch.

[Plucketeer]

14. I never really saw the danger my mom did

when she screamed at me and threw into the back yard, the pan of rocket fuel I was cooking on the kitchen stove. I caught hell for ruining the pan too.:(