Link TKO why is this a big deal? Seems to me a chemical in a chemical lab is not a bad thing. (This title brought to you by Flow)
That was my initial thought... a chemical, in a chemical lab. My only guess it wasn't supposed to be there and discovered during inventory.
I'm guessing he knows who she is, and was asking where she is. I've still got about a week to go before I can hang around her regularly, so I can't complain if TKO is gone for a while.
The thread is addressed to TKO; TKO has not posted in it a week later, despite posting in other threads. "TKO?" was bumping and directing at TKO.
Because if it's dried out, just touching the bottle/jar it's stored can cause it to explode. It's usually stored in water, and pretty unstable. Usually bomb squads are called to remove the stuff. Sort of like the time I found someone stored glycerin and nitric acid in the same plastic tub at a place I used to work. Bomb squad came out for that one.
Very well. Carry on then. At the (low) risk of revealing personal information, she HAS been posting on "social media", and is therefore alive and well.
Not trying to sound like a jerk here - just pointing out that I said "despite posting in other threads." In other words, I thought she hadn't seen this one!
Opening a bottle of crystallized picric acid is lethal. You could blow up a cow easily if you had enough. All it needs is a teensy bit of air, as far as I know. The problem was that the stuff in the bottle got old and dry. New, wet picric acid is fine, I think. It's usually kept in water. If you don't see water, you call a bomb squad. Or, if you're as crazy as my undergrad inorganic professor, you take the bottle to a field and shoot it.
Ha. thanks. Know I have to try and keep one of Flow's cows alive by keeping him from getting picric acid. Time to be road runner to his coyote.
Does that wiki image show up? Every time you see a ring with double bonds and a bunch of nitrogens coming off it, assume it's explosive. That's picric acid
Yep.. storing it in water is pretty standard to keeping it safe. It's the formation of the by products that are dangerous. And TKO knows, but so others know, a lab explosion can be very bad especially if other dangerous chemicals are in the same area. A small explosion or fire caused by an explosion can spread some very nasty chemicals in a building or the area the building is in. Someone with a PhD, we had a large number of those working there. They usually did the dumbest things possible. It wouldn't been so bad if they were sealed, but both bottle were leaking enough that there was a pool of glycerin under the bottle of nitric acid.
A neat bit of synchronicity in my life is that TKO reminds me of another young lady I've been friends with online for about 15 years. I first met Queen Alexi at the Sci Fi channel bboards when she was in high school, then knew her (online of course) all through college, and now she's a teacher. Knowing TKO is oddly familiar. They even sometimes post similar things on my Facebook around the same time.
That image better be submersed in water, young lady. Otherwise I wouldn't even ask teh Baba to handle it
That is a crazy lookalike! That guy looks almost like Commander Data, except for his surroundings and hair.