Quote of the Day, Better Living Through Chemistry edition.

If you’re like me, you’ll need to click this link to understand why the exchange turns out to be pretty danged funny.

Bob: “So, does anyone see any problems with this picture?”
Me: “YES!  There’s a four f[*]cking liter bottle of picric acid!”

But clicking that link will be very profitable for you!  You will learn something about chemistry.  Including why it was perfectly grammatical and correct to insert the word ‘f[*]cking’ into that sentence.  Indeed, said sentence could have used another one, between ‘picric’ and ‘acid.’ Short version: avoid poking around in collegiate chemistry labs. You’ll only see things that will highly upset you.

3 thoughts on “Quote of the Day, Better Living Through Chemistry edition.”

  1. There was a moment like this in the early 1980s in Indianapolis, from what I understand; someone found a jar much like that, raised the alert, and the news media was actually helpful because it meant a lot of Indiana high schools went looking to see if they had anything like that lying around.
    The way they got rid of them, apparently, was they sat them in the middle of the football field and threw rocks at it until it went off. This is why a number of Indiana high schools had a chunk of turf in their football field that they had to replace.

  2. ’twas a good read .. and yeah, lab folks misplacing stuff or making extra “just in case” and then storing and forgetting it is *not* as uncommon as it maybe ought to be…
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    Dr. Funranium is also disturbingly on point when he says the “maker” mentality – backyard tinkering, only with high tech bits and pieces – will be just as deadly and toxic as prior tinkering eras.
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    There’s good reasons why industrialization moved the nastier processes downriver / downwind ..
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    Mew

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