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Florida Teen Girl Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad
Miami Times ^ | April 26, 2013 | Kyle Munzenrieder

Posted on 05/01/2013 9:12:01 AM PDT by Altariel

Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn't the kind of kid you'd expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled from school, but that's exactly what happened after an attempt at a science project went horribly wrong.

On 7 a.m. on Monday, the 16 year-old mixed some common household chemicals in a small 8 oz water bottle on the grounds of Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida. The reaction caused a small explosion that caused the top to pop up and produced some smoke. No one was hurt and no damage was caused.

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To: Altariel

Her future career in inorganic chemistry has literally went up in smoke. Her felony record will prevent her from work for any lab. If she devised a way to make crystal meth, the teachers may have given her an A++. This is how talent and innovation is squashed in public diploma mills.


21 posted on 05/01/2013 9:24:25 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: left that other site

I’m guessing that what is really at play here is an effort by the democrips (and their eager beaver vermin media) to cause racial chaos in Florida so the elections there can be cheated successfully, with suppressed voter turnout.


22 posted on 05/01/2013 9:25:24 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Altariel
"The reaction caused a small explosion that caused the top to pop up and produced some smoke"

She was smoking in class.

23 posted on 05/01/2013 9:28:09 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: MHGinTN

I don’t put anything past them, FRiend.


24 posted on 05/01/2013 9:28:38 AM PDT by left that other site ((Ban the ubiquitous and deadly solvent, Di-hydrogen monoxide!!!))
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To: I want the USA back

When I was eight my mom and dad got me a rocket for Christmas that you mixed vinegar and baking soda in to launch it. I could never figure out how to make it work, and given my propensity for being an accident prone kid, that might be a good thing...:)


25 posted on 05/01/2013 9:31:32 AM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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To: Altariel
"Respect the Chemistry!"


26 posted on 05/01/2013 9:32:22 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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To: Altariel

I’m tempted to call this madness. I think it’s something far worse than madness. Something like having no mind at all.

This girl must be released and have her record cleaned. Plus she needs to get a written apology from the school, plus $1,000 a week for life.


27 posted on 05/01/2013 9:32:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: I want the USA back
Probably vinegar and baking soda (or powder? I can never remember)

Baking soda. Baking powder is baking soda plus an acidic salt so it fizzes with just water.

I had a little toy submarine when I was a kid that was fueled by baking powder. It would produce a bubble of CO2 which would lift the sub to the surface, be released to the air and then sink back to the bottom until enough CO2 was produced to lift it again.

28 posted on 05/01/2013 9:33:43 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: Billthedrill

Me too. When I lived in the Philippines as a kid, someone was trying to make “rocket fuel” and blew up the chemistry lab, blowing out the floor to ceiling plate glass windows. Whoever did it must not have been hurt badly, and the bolted, so nobody knew who did it. But there were a few suspects.

Sigh. I don’t envy being a kid today. With parents that have you on an electronic leash and wrapped securely in bubble wrap under constant surveillance, I can’t imagine them doing the things I did.


29 posted on 05/01/2013 9:35:45 AM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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To: I want the USA back
Probably vinegar and baking soda (or powder? I can never remember)

Soda. It foams up and you can try to clear your drains with it.

The really dangerous one is chlorine bleach plus ammonia. Emits a toxic fume. Never use bleach to clean up a basement floor full of kitty pee.

31 posted on 05/01/2013 9:45:51 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Don't believe any rumors in Washington, DC until they are officially denied.)
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To: eyeamok
When I was in the 7th grade, we (Teacher and Kids) blew up balloons with acetylene and oxygen, used toilet paper for fuses and Exploded them in the School, outside the Metal Shop building, to demonstrate what happens if you accidentally leave the welding torch gas turned on. We also made explosives in science class to make sure us kids didn’t accidentally blow up the building. How far we have gone over the edge.

When we finally got to high school, and had real supplies to experiment with, many kids were known to make contact explosives out of iodine and other materials - don't remember the mix, never did it myself. Enough to startle folks, but not do much damage, if any at all.

32 posted on 05/01/2013 9:47:12 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: Altariel
Something seems incongruent about this story....

The article doesn't say this was done as part of a class.

So it sounds like this 16 year old girl brought household chemicals from home to mix at school. And if she did, then she probably already knew what would happen. Which means...


33 posted on 05/01/2013 9:48:52 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: dfwgator
That picture brings back some memories....

Arkansas..1960s..Grandparents house..Game of operation..no batteries..brother stuck the tweezers in the electric socket. And the nose turned red and made a pop sound. He did it two or three more times with the same results and then put the game up.
I wasn't satisfied with that so, I took it down and did it again. Blew the fuse for the whole block. Uncles had to climb the telephone pole and repair it.

Nashville late 1990's....Daughter sticks something metal in the electric socket and gets shocked. Not hurt bad, but I remember that sick feeling in my stomach and thinking, "How could I not have taught her not to do that already."

34 posted on 05/01/2013 9:55:23 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Altariel

Don’t we need to know more about the story?

Did this girl steal the components needed for this explosion? Or were they given to her for a classroom experiment?

Was it done during school time and during class?

Was the explosion in the classroom? Or did she take it outside to the playground to see how big the explosion would be?


35 posted on 05/01/2013 10:03:20 AM PDT by Alex in chains
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To: Altariel

Government schools are evil prisons.


36 posted on 05/01/2013 10:08:11 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Altariel

Free Kiera!


37 posted on 05/01/2013 10:10:27 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: Altariel

Well, if you’re old enough to buy the Morning After Pill, you’re old enough to get arrested...


38 posted on 05/01/2013 10:17:51 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: Altariel

Who radicalized Kiera? Investigate!


39 posted on 05/01/2013 10:26:30 AM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: rlmorel
Me too. When I lived in the Philippines as a kid, someone was trying to make “rocket fuel” and blew up the chemistry lab, blowing out the floor to ceiling plate glass windows. Whoever did it must not have been hurt badly, and the bolted, so nobody knew who did it. But there were a few suspects.

My brother did this in middle school science lab. He was obsessed with making model rockets and his experiment exploded. No windows were broken, though, but the science teacher did give me a strange look when reading my name off the roster a few years later on the first day of science class. Are you related to *** ***** he asked, white faced. He likely did not realize there were more of us still to come from that crazy family.

For the record, I did not blow anything up- but my lab partner and I did make beer as our year-end project.

40 posted on 05/01/2013 10:44:02 AM PDT by Red Boots
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