Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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not quite fire but a half decent explosionAt secondary school the coolest teacher was the Chemistry teacher (sorry, can't remember your name). One chemistry lesson I think we were making hydrogen by mixing zinc with acid (forgive my chemistry skills if thats wrong), we all had a beaker of acid and the teacher came round one by one putting zinc in the acid and then we held a test tube over it to collect whatever it produced then lit it with the bunson burner to make it pop. My and mate were last in line as we were sat at the back. As we were the last the teacher chucked all the zinc into to our acid. It must have been about 4 times the amount everyone else had as when we lit it the test tube exploded. How we all laughed as we picked shards of glass out of our hands and faces. The safety goggles did their job (safety first kids) and I had a half inch pointy bit of glass embedded in the side bit of my goggles.
Didn't seem to worry our teacher though, just advised us to put a bit of TCP on the cuts and scrates when we got home.
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nikdude, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 20:34,
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