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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] python@programming.dev 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The ~~forbidden~~ dicouraged bong :3

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Clears up your sinuses like forbidden wasabi

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It has been 0 days since the last Incident.

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.org 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

"Those were toenail clippings!"

"A feast's a feast."

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

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

"The box says no!"

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Your new hotsauce recipe?

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Getting really close

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

dropped into titanium tetrachloride? Not much else fumes this badly

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Quenching reactive byproducts after a campaign

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

You also get to finish life early!

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week 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?”

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

"did I fucking stutter?"

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

~home~ Hospital or morgue

FTFY

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I got so many of those

[–] IGuessThisIsForNSFW@yiffit.net 2 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.

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