Science Experiment in Sydney School goes wrong (1 Viewer)

[Deliriously]

Happened in my brother's school today.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2012/11/29/15/16/reports-of-chemical-spill-at-nsw-high-school

Moral of the story: better fill your risk assessment properly!

 

[Obvious]

They're year sevens as well, what the hell were they doing?

 

[Riproot]

They're year sevens as well, what the hell were they doing?

ikr! I thought year 7s were only allowed to touch salt water and stuff. Lol

 

[starshine02]

Wow. Yeah when I was in year 7 we couldn't do anything! Although I guess the teacher did demonstrate a lot of the times. So many were injured

 

[Kurosaki]

Wow. Just..wow. I remember that in ye 7 the most dangerous task was lighting a Bunsen burner? What the hell were they doing?

 

[SpiralFlex]

Did they try to make real volcanoes....How many chemical incidents in one week. Mmm

 

[twinklegal19]

Wow. Just..wow. I remember that in ye 7 the most dangerous task was lighting a Bunsen burner? What the hell were they doing?

and boiling water haha

 

[Riproot]

and boiling water haha

maybe they accidentally boiled H2SO4 instead of water and then the vapour was bad. Yay!

 

[Kurosaki]

maybe they accidentally boiled H2SO4 instead of water and then the vapour was bad. Yay!

Shouldn't it be like um sulfurous acid? If you boil sulfuric u get like sulfur trioxide I think, not dioxide

 

[Riproot]

Shouldn't it be like um sulfurous acid? If you boil sulfuric u get like sulfur trioxide I think, not dioxide

Well yeah, but not many school labs have that, and it wasn't ~confirmed~ what sort of chemicals they ingested.

 

[Kurosaki]

It says that they were exposed to sulfur dioxide and got inhalation injuries

 

[Arcadian Empire]

this happened in our school a few years ago

lab tech put out the wrong reagent

 

[Riproot]

It says that they were exposed to sulfur dioxide and got inhalation injuries

I thought it was reported to paramedics by someone at the school and then later the school said they didn't know what happened so excuse me for being a bit confused about the confirmation of what they were exposed to.

 

[czhuu]

trust.