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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The ~~forbidden~~ dicouraged bong :3

[–] MataVatnik 21 points 2 months ago

Clears up your sinuses like forbidden wasabi

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It has been 0 days since the last Incident.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Now, to finish off those potato chips Amy threw out yesterday."

"Those were toenail clippings!"

"A feast's a feast."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

"Now it's my turn to take the box maybe?"

"The box says no!"

[–] MataVatnik 13 points 2 months ago

It's not an incident if you don't report it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The same will happen with chlorobromohexane, which is what appears to be in the flask.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That aint it chief. Judging by context and looks that flask is being cleaned with something that i wouldn't use

[–] marcos 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Well, it's what is on the label.

But given the overall context, I wouldn't expect the label to reflect what is actually there either.

[–] MataVatnik 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'll send a dick pic to whoever manages to guess the contents of this flask correctly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Your new hotsauce recipe?

[–] EtherWhack 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's using (B)oron though, not (Br)omine.

The thing though, is that boron would normally be written before chlorine. So, I would guess what is written is just the reagents and not the final product. Maybe boron trichloride? I haven't taken a chem class in 15 years, so I may be a bit out of touch though.

Also, what looks to be trichloride (Cl[3]) could also be carbon triiodide, if the person didn't use serifs for the "I". Though, both don't really exist outside of reactions AFIK. The handwriting for subscripted "3" also makes it look like a lowercase "I" making it carbon and lithium. But again, a chemical with just a single carbon and lithium atom doesn't really exist either.

[–] MataVatnik 3 points 2 months ago

Getting really close

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think this could be benzoyl-something, and hexane was a crystallization solvent

[–] MataVatnik 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

dropped into titanium tetrachloride? Not much else fumes this badly

[–] MataVatnik 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ahhh, killing everyone in the room just so Sigma doesn't get another 200 bucks from you.

Or is this not a vain attempt at cleaning it?

[–] MataVatnik 6 points 2 months ago

Quenching reactive byproducts after a campaign

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 12 points 2 months ago

You also get to finish life early!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Mrs Krinkle, why is Mrs Cigarette out?”

“There was an unfortunate accident in her class involving hydrochloric acid, so she was sent home for the week.”

“…But doesn’t she teach band?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"did I fucking stutter?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

~home~ Hospital or morgue

FTFY

[–] MataVatnik 1 points 2 months ago

Morgue ~~Home~~ Sweet ~~Home~~ Morgue 🤗

[–] BreadOven 6 points 2 months ago

Whatever it is, you let it boil up too much. Need a bigger 3-neck.

[–] expatriado 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MataVatnik 2 points 2 months ago

I got so many of those

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am not a chemist, but it was my understanding that HCl isn't a hexane. Are we just reusing glassware without removing the label, or is HCl actually a hexane?

[–] MataVatnik 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hexane is just a solvent. In that solvent we had dissolved a highly reactive chemical that decomposes to HCl when mixed with water. The reaction is highly exothermic and HCl is also volatile. Hence that plume that you are seeing is pure HCl fumes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you so much for the reply! I love it when memes teach me something!

[–] MisterFrog 2 points 2 months ago

HCl is already in your stomach, what's the big deal of a little in the lungs?!?