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Re:Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term histori... by User23 on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:58PM (#21918140)
My high school chemistry teacher opened with the thermite reaction experiment. Chemistry at my school was far from boring.
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Re:Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term histori... by peglasaurus on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:48PM (#21919035)
"Look at the boring explosion. Did that entire hillside just vaporise? How boring!"

Said no one ever

I remember a chemistry teacher running around in panic because he dropped a sample of something (phosphorus or sodium ?) on his shoe and it was stuck. He had carefully taken it out of a small oil filled container. Smoke filled the room. His shoe was burnt and four classes surrounding that lab were evacuated.

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