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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More Chemistry ShenanigansI wasn't present to witness this particular incident, but was told it by my chemistry teacher having enquired after the new burn mark on one of the sockets next to the desk in the lab. It turns out a second year class was using the bunsen burners for an experiment, but the two girls working at that desk hadn't been able to light theirs. Try, try as they might, it remained stubbornly out.
Unbeknownst to them, the tube had come disconnected from the gas tap and gas was leaking out to form an invisible yet highly inflammable cloud in the area round the tap. One of the girls incautiously waved a lit splint through the cloud whilst examining the burner again and... one singed desk, one shocked girl, two less eyebrows than there had been moments before.
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 16:35, Reply)
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