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Chemistry teacher sets students on fire in science experiment disaster
New York Post ^ | January 2, 2014 | Natasha Velez, Lorena Mongelli and Laura Italiano

Posted on 01/02/2014 1:29:42 PM PST by EveningStar

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1 posted on 01/02/2014 1:29:42 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Teaching the kids to make meth.


2 posted on 01/02/2014 1:30:41 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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Better call Saul.


3 posted on 01/02/2014 1:31:08 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: EveningStar

OOPS! Time to find another line of work!

4 posted on 01/02/2014 1:32:27 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Should have went to Hogwarts


5 posted on 01/02/2014 1:33:59 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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...four flaming crucibles in the Upper West Side public school’s third floor chemistry lab instead exploded into a fireball that raged across a countertop...

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night.
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

6 posted on 01/02/2014 1:34:29 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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I remember when my HS chem teacher on the first day put metallic sodium in a beaker of water. (Lights were turned off at the time.) It kind of sat on top of the water and burned a bit but it started making a whistling noise. The noise continued up in pitch until it exploded sending burning pieces of sodium every where!

Fortunately we were all sitting down in our seats. She only had a light burn on the arm from a small piece of it.

I’d love to see that again!


7 posted on 01/02/2014 1:36:00 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: EveningStar

The incredible sight of hundreds of NY lawyers circling in the skies over Beacon High can be seen at this very moment.


8 posted on 01/02/2014 1:38:31 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: EveningStar

WHAT HAPPEN?


9 posted on 01/02/2014 1:39:46 PM PST by RichInOC (HA HA HA HA....)
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To: EveningStar

Make a man a fire and you warm him for a night.

Light a man on fire and he will be warm the rest of his life.


10 posted on 01/02/2014 1:39:51 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: EveningStar

In 1968 my chemistry professor burned to death in a similar accident caused by a student who ran out of the building leaving the prof to burn.


11 posted on 01/02/2014 1:41:23 PM PST by Hang'emAll (If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
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“Kelp, parents dont like teachers blowing up their kids!”


12 posted on 01/02/2014 1:41:27 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Pharmboy; rmlew

Ping.


13 posted on 01/02/2014 1:42:27 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: PowderMonkey
The incredible sight of hundreds of NY lawyers circling in the skies over Beacon High can be seen at this very moment.

Q: What is the difference between a lawyer and a buzzard?

A: A buzzard is choosy about what it associates with.

14 posted on 01/02/2014 1:43:25 PM PST by eldoradude (Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
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To: EveningStar

“hold ma beer, watch this”


15 posted on 01/02/2014 1:44:27 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Horrible story. I hope the kids recover. :(


16 posted on 01/02/2014 1:45:50 PM PST by MissTed ( Private Tagline - Do Not Read!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
I remember when my HS chem teacher on the first day put metallic sodium in a beaker of water. (Lights were turned off at the time.) It kind of sat on top of the water and burned a bit but it started making a whistling noise. The noise continued up in pitch until it exploded sending burning pieces of sodium every where!

Fortunately we were all sitting down in our seats. She only had a light burn on the arm from a small piece of it.

Our honors Chem teacher did the same. Had a yearly party for all of his students for years, really got you into Science.

17 posted on 01/02/2014 1:46:01 PM PST by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: Hang'emAll

How terrible. In my high school (in NYC) we were never able to use the chemistry lab during my time there because at the beginning of the term, somebody had not only caused an explosion but somehow contaminated the entire space. I’m not sure with what, but the room was locked and off limits. Nobody was killed or injured in that one, at least.

Of course, this was NYC in the 1960s, famous for its schools with peeling paint and leaking roofs, so they probably just didn’t want to spend the money to fix it.


18 posted on 01/02/2014 1:46:27 PM PST by livius
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To: RichInOC
WHAT HAPPEN?

Somebody set up us the bomb.

19 posted on 01/02/2014 1:47:07 PM PST by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
I remember when my HS chem teacher on the first day put metallic sodium in a beaker of water.

Those were the good old days. If I had been able to get my hands on some nitric acid back then, I'd be dead.


20 posted on 01/02/2014 1:48:40 PM PST by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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