household chemicals? ... vinegar & soda?
According to Fox News, she mixed toilet bowl cleaner and pieces of aluminum foil in a tiny water bottle.
household chemicals? ... vinegar & soda?
According to Fox News, she mixed toilet bowl cleaner and pieces of aluminum foil in a tiny water bottle.
Thanks, I won’t try it. But I did more stupid things as a kid.
But as a Kid, I was not as stupid as the “Educators” who establish “zero tolerance” rules. (Zero Tolerance = Zero Brains)
Anything like mixing toilet bowl cleaner and vinegar?
That will kill you!
Some toilet bowl cleaners will react with the aluminum to form hydrogen - boom!
I made nitroglycerin in my chemistry class as a Freshman in high school... I tried to make numerous explosives, most failed, but not all...
That’s how you learn. It was exciting...
What really matters here is did she do this with kids immediately around her or did she do this in a relatively clear area. About the worst that could have happened here is someone being hit by a flying plastic bottle or toilet bowl cleaner in the eyes. Hardly worthy of a felony.
We have lost our way as a country. We destroy the best among us and lift the worst and then wonder why we are decline.
Ah, so she made a drano bomb. Those can actually be kind of dangerous.
Aluminum is the accelerate of choice for many explosive mixtures... Toilet bowel cleaner. IIRC, one more ingredient and she made a small but very real bomb.
From what I’ve read she “experimented” with this on her own. This was in no way a school assignment or even science fair project.
We had one “nerd” in my Middle School that was setting off smoke bombs in empty locker on timers. The third time he got his mixture off and blew six locker to pieces. Had it happened 30 seconds later after the class change bell there would have been several students injured or killed.
The reaction will release hydrogen gas but unless there is an ignition source there is no "explosion". The gas pressure just pops the cap. Some more destructive kids use a 2 liter bottle and more of the reactants, these can be dangerous as the bottle ruptures quite vigorously. If it was picked up by a bystander thinking it was trash the flying debris could cause eye injuries and/or caustic burns.
Some toilet bowl cleaners contain hydrochloric acid which will react with aluminum as does lye (sodium hydroxide) which is found in drain cleaners like Draino and Red Devil Lye, neither one of which you would want to splash in your face!
What she did was hardly threatening and to charge her with a felony is ridiculous overreaction.
Regards,
GtG