10/17/14 12:26 PM

"for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4"

I remember that one, HydrChloAcid ??

On Jeopardy last night [we watch to reaffirm nightly how bad our memories are, and how smart we aren't]
there was a pic/answer with 3 rings than Balantine obviously had copied 100 years ago.

I jokingly answered 'What is Balantine", Elaine did not get it. I you tubed for the jingle and played it for her.
An then another ring, and then another.. Then she got it.

Funny how you remember certain things...

10/17/14 12:34 PM

Either one is nasty. I caught a lungful of sulfuric when mixing reagents many, many, many years ago in my dad's lab (I was stupid and mixed things in the wrong order--I think I poured water into acid rather than the other way around, something like that; I was 14 at the time). Fortunately for me, what I inhaled was pretty dilute, but I was short of breath for months.

10/17/14 8:27 PM

College Chem lab basics. Dude the fumes combine with moisture in your lungs to burn them but good.

I hated working with acid in the lab, even under the hood. Even worse when you have to heat it. Yuck.