[Mr Ramsbotham]

I remember the jar of kerosene in chemistry, that held all of the large chunks of sodium. The teacher would carve off a little sliver, drop it in water, and Pow! He told us someone had dropped a good sized chunk off a bridge in ( I believe) Chicago, once, and blew out a bunch of windows.

I had exactly the same experience. Little slivers of kerosene sliced off a big chunk that had been kept in kerosene, tossed into a fish tank, along with the same story about the bridge. It must be stock material with high school chemistry teachers.

[21twelve]

Heh. Our teacher told us some kid tried to take some home. It got hot in his hands from the moisture and he tossed it into the old porcelain drinking fountain in the hallway and it exploded.

I always thought that was a real story. Now though...

[gundog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X4aVueFmOHo