Who the fuck almost died in second period?

Worse thing that happened in my chemistry class is I accidentally spilled sulfuric acid on my hand and another student painted her face with silver nitrate and then got sent home for being in black face after it reacted to the sun. NGL, that one was funny as hell.

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Must be the person who put hot glass under cold water and learned something about thermal differentials.

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That’s a great prank to do when someone is sleeping - they wouldn’t know about it when looking in the mirror but then go outside and everyone is clutching their pearls

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Ooof, my lab’s safety officer would have loved this. And by love I mean gone absolutely ballistic.

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protip: hot glass looks the same as cold glass

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False. Really hot glass would glow red, and sometimes cold glass would have condensation depending on the humidity.

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Those are extremes. Hot glass that can easily cause severe burns with a quick touch often looks just like room temp glass.

Edit: I, and many others have told countless people the statement OP made. It’s for your own safety.

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Yep. I’ve told many people this.

I’ve also succumbed to confusing that schlenk connector that was just in a flame with the cold one.

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Not always, but once it starts looking different we’ve moved past asking what degree the burn is and into “do you keep the appendage that touched it?”

If you went to the hospital in the back seat of a car? The glass looked room temperature.

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Haha. Great analogy. Too true.

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Yeah I think people can get tripped up by the fact that glass does glow red when it’s melty. Don’t fight that thought, lean into it, explain just how wildly hot glass needs to be before it looks any different and what that will do to the biology that touches it

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I suspect 7th period is not the teachers favorite class

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I wanna know about the near death experience!

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Maybe even three!

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The seventh period had at least 2 student dead.

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