• Question: Have you ever blown anything up?

    Asked by gmsv to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 16 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Apart from breaking the odd flask of flammable organic liquids in first year chemistry at university, I don’t think so!

      I have a colleague in Cambridge (Chemistry), Peter Wothers, who is something of a legend when it comes to controlled explosions!

    • Photo: Melanie Stefan

      Melanie Stefan answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      No, fortunately not. I usually work with really tiny amounts of mostly harmless chemicals, so there is not much danger of blowing stuff up.

    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Not on purpose :0 Just kidding, I don’t think I’ve blown anything up. I got evacuated from my home, because they thought the petrol station next door to me was about to blow, but I didn’t have anything to do with it.

    • Photo: Probash Chowdhury

      Probash Chowdhury answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Check out my profile – just added a photo of us blowing something up…..

      But on a day to day basis, I don’t usually blow things up.

    • Photo: Mark Vesey

      Mark Vesey answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      I’ve never actually blown anything up but i did make an accidental fireball out of a bunsen burner when in university – was scary and do definitely not try at home/school/anywhere!

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