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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 4/6/2024 12:56 AM, Char Jackson wrote:   
   > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 21:03:01 -0400, Paul  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Everyone knows what a beaker looks like. What some don't know, is when   
   >> the beakers get big enough (four liters), they're easy to break just by   
   heating them   
   >> too fast. If you wanted to boil four liters of water that way, it might be   
   >> safer to tie the flat-bottomed heater to a variac, and bring it up slowly.   
   >> The small beakers are much more dependable. And of course, in the lab,   
   everyone   
   >> enjoys four liters of scalding hot water going everywhere in an instant.   
   >   
   > In grade school science class, we were heating some kind of potassium   
   compound,   
   > bringing it to a boil and capturing the hydrogen that boiled off. The teacher   
   > warned us not to turn the Bunsen burners up too far, so of course my lab   
   partner   
   > cranked up the heat to see what would happen and it exploded. I had glass   
   > embedded from my left wrist up to my shoulder. I was famous for the rest of   
   the   
   > day.   
   >   
      
   Your lab partner, presumably being clever enough to run away before it went   
   off :-)   
      
   A good lab partner will do that.   
      
      Paul   
      
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