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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

A chemistry teacher at Manhattan’s award-winning Beacon High School set two 10th graders on fire Thursday morning — leaving one boy with serious burns — in a fiery experiment gone horribly awry.

Teacher Anna Poole had hoped to treat her students to a “fun” demonstration during their first class back from the holiday break, students told The Post.

But 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 and engulfed sophomore Alonzo Yanes, 16.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: beaconhighschool; nyc; scienceeducation
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To: EveningStar

Reminds me of an incident with Bacardi 151. I was much younger.


21 posted on 01/02/2014 1:49:40 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

An update to the timeless classic:


My chemistry teacher did a demo.
But sadly had no clue,
That what he thought was H2O,
Was Hg(CNO)2.

22 posted on 01/02/2014 1:51:15 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: livius

In my HS Chemistry class, the teacher demonstrated that potassium explodes in water. After the explosion the purplish- looking cloud set off the fire alarms. The buildings had to be evacuated and the FD called in.


23 posted on 01/02/2014 1:51:52 PM PST by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: EveningStar

This sounds like an accident, but that teacher will never live this down. She many need to change school districts if not leave the state. I would be concerned if my child was sitting in her chemistry class.


24 posted on 01/02/2014 1:55:07 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I remember. . . way back in 6th or 7th grade, the Science teacher poured a test tube full of purple Potassium Permanganate crystals into a beaker half-full of glycerin.

In about thirty seconds, there was a 10-foot or so pillar of fire coming out of the beaker, lasted 15-20 seconds. . .


25 posted on 01/02/2014 1:58:56 PM PST by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: FredZarguna
Willie was a scientist
Willie is no more
Because what Willie thought was H2O
Was H2SO4
26 posted on 01/02/2014 2:04:28 PM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Salgak

You can put that stuff in ethylene glycol and it’ll do the same.


27 posted on 01/02/2014 2:06:36 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
That's the classic original. Although I heard it as:


My Chem teacher took a drink,
But now will drink no more.
For what he thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4.

28 posted on 01/02/2014 2:09:49 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: FredZarguna
Alas poor Phil
His face we see no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4

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29 posted on 01/02/2014 2:11:57 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: EveningStar

Our best and brightest obviously don’t go into teaching anymore.


30 posted on 01/02/2014 2:12:20 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: Alex Murphy
What's yellow and orange and looks good on a hippie?

Fire.

31 posted on 01/02/2014 2:13:14 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Jewbacca

The article ends with noting the school’s reputation and ‘among its graduates’ new Mayor DeBlasio’s daughter, Chiara. Is she the one who recently spoke of her addiction to drugs?


32 posted on 01/02/2014 2:14:55 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: EveningStar

What was she playing with? Phosphorus?


33 posted on 01/02/2014 2:17:39 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Salgak

Fire balls.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129513

So, the U.S. Forest Service is increasingly relying on a much safer, more cost-effective strategy. Rangers use aerial ignition devices — which are plastic ping-pong balls filled with highly flammable potassium permanganate. Loaded into a helicopter dispenser, the little balls are injected with antifreeze just before they’re dropped into the targeted area.


34 posted on 01/02/2014 2:17:47 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: thesharkboy

WE GET SIGNAL!


35 posted on 01/02/2014 2:43:40 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Here ya go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-93gBZvio


36 posted on 01/02/2014 3:01:40 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: MissTed
Horrible story.

Yes it is, made worse by the jokes here.

37 posted on 01/02/2014 3:12:04 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: EveningStar

Similar event happened at a tony private boarding school
in northeast ohio a few years ago.

Large amounts of money will change hands.


38 posted on 01/02/2014 3:19:56 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: thesharkboy
Somebody set up us the bomb.

Heh. Haven't heard that one for a while. All your Bunsen burners are belong to us.

39 posted on 01/02/2014 3:21:49 PM PST by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: FredZarguna

What movie is that scene from?


40 posted on 01/02/2014 3:26:46 PM PST by EveningStar
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