MEGAPOST!; Simple decomposition experiments can go terribly wrong.

ANH

Pretty much, today during chemistry, we had to perform a simple decomposition experiment, where we heated Magnesium Carbonate under a bunsen and test the gas released under limewater.

Sound pretty straightforward, yes?

NO!!!

It turns out that when a stopper is too good, and you heat the Magnesium Carbonate too fast, things can explode.






























Quite mad yeah? Dust covered everything in a 2 metre radius from the explosion site. LOL.

Should've seen Peck's face when that happened.

The moment I screamed out "FUCK ME!", Peck's face darkened like crazy.

Funny thing is, afterwards, Wilson told us,

"Oh, I saw a crack but I wasn't sure about it so I didn't say anything."

MMMMMMN!

You ALWAYS SAY SOMETHING!!!

Even worse was John Duong, who despite being in our group, and right next to the explosion, appaerntly had no idea anything out of the ordinary had occurred, until we all started laughing, and swearing. -____-"

It turns out that if you get Magnesium Carbonate on any clothing, you should immediately strip it off. Unfortunately, it had covered ALL of our clothing, and it'd be a bit weird just stripping down in the middle of class.

kily, my power el is over 9000, and hence, I suffered no adverse effects of this Magnesium Carbonate.

I can't exactly say the same for the others.
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Paul

And then theres me. I was holding the bunsen burner under the test tube so was probably the closest (and the one most responsible for this incident) to the explosion but i didn't even move when it exploded. i just kinda froze until we all started swearing.
but the ironic thing is, is that at the start of the lesson mr peck told us theres a prac so i was excited and asked "hey sir, are we gonna blow things up" and he answered "yeah, totally" in a sarcastic tone. wow, coincidence much?
also, the sheet did mention the risk of fast heating, which i just read. i was standing their thinking, "hmm, when should i turn it down?" then boom. the powder was like levitating from the buildup of gas :L

mr peck told me to keep my clothes on when i mentioned the label told us we had to remove all contaminated clothing. nat's group had there flame on full blue, even stronger than ours which meant they were going to explode as well so we decided to be nice and let them know.

but noone in our group was more hectic than wilson. that guy told us AFTER the explosion that he thought he saw something, but he didnt say something cause he "wasn't sure" good job wilson. i can rely on you yea? "hey sorry man, i saw the car coming to hit you... but i just wasn't sure"

by the way, i need results julie =)

our bio class is screwed. we have 7 pracs to finish before the end of term and we still have a bit of theory to cover. mahfouz is the best.

anyway, i hope we get back our english assessments soon. i hope i pass.