yulia
i'm sorry for your face.
My chemistry class is full of accidents due to...well...somethings are just stupid, some things are based on my school's incompetance, the death rate in my class is extremely high - so here are my chemistry experiences! But tell me yours! They're always interesting...and liven up the classroom.
My school's chemistry assistant or whatever you wanna call her, basically, if you need something for something in science like beakers etc, you have to order them from her. She and whoever is in charge of buying stuff for the school and the budget, thought they'd save the school some money by not buying pyrex/fire safe test tubes, but didn't think about what some of us would be using them for, and didn't think to warn us.
So here we are, heating up these test tubes over the bunsen burner, when I notice mine is changing shape, so I touch it of course, because I'm stupid and curious about everything, and what do you know, I get melted glass on me and the girl who is next to me heating her test tubes, well, they explode all over us.
Then we have one really dodgy bunsen burner, the flame was tremendously HUGE, and these guys were heating copper sulfate solution on a watch glass, but the flame was reaching right over on top of the watch glass, one of the guys asks the other "Is it hot yet" he looks at it and says "no", they walk away, just as they turn their backs it explodes and there's green fire everywhere...
A girl in my class was putting together a pippette. She was holding onto the CENTRE of the pippette and squashing it into the thingy...geez I cant remember what they're called, anyways it snaps, goes straight through her wrist, she freaks out pulls it out, goes into shock, slips, it slices up her thumb. Blood starts spurting EVERYWHERE (Gross, dark, black like coloured blood *pukes*) She decides she needs to lie down, so lies down on the chemistry bench, which was covered in glass from the pipette breaking. Our earth science teacher comes in to see what the comotion is about - and laughs at her.
Then we are working with organic stuff, and I end up with her as a partner, with a damaged shaky hand. She INSISTS on doing everything herself, but makes me hold the conical flask as she goes to pour in the organic stuff - i had no gloves on as my teacher decided as my hands are so small, gloves would only get in my way- so here I am trying to keep up with her violently shaking hand so she doesn't spill the stuff all over me.
Acid - strong acid - there was a bottle of it that we were all meant to get our own beaker full from - the boys, for some stupid reason, couldn't remember that, and came and took mine without telling me, they also spilled it all around my beaker and I didnt know, so I pick it up, my hands get covered in acid. But because the heaters in my school are too noisy, we werent allowed to have them on, so my hands were too numb to notice. then I put my hand on my jumper, and i notice, ooo, theres jumper stuck to my hand, then im notified that oops, they spilt acid all over my beaker - I pull off my glove that was somewhat sticking to my hand, put my hand under water, and it starts to lightly blister - im forced to wash my jumper in the chemistry sink - and end up spending the day without a jumper - on a cold rainy day.
Ok, thats about it, for now, lol.
Oh, and my jumper now has white patches where I got the acid on it.
My school's chemistry assistant or whatever you wanna call her, basically, if you need something for something in science like beakers etc, you have to order them from her. She and whoever is in charge of buying stuff for the school and the budget, thought they'd save the school some money by not buying pyrex/fire safe test tubes, but didn't think about what some of us would be using them for, and didn't think to warn us.
So here we are, heating up these test tubes over the bunsen burner, when I notice mine is changing shape, so I touch it of course, because I'm stupid and curious about everything, and what do you know, I get melted glass on me and the girl who is next to me heating her test tubes, well, they explode all over us.
Then we have one really dodgy bunsen burner, the flame was tremendously HUGE, and these guys were heating copper sulfate solution on a watch glass, but the flame was reaching right over on top of the watch glass, one of the guys asks the other "Is it hot yet" he looks at it and says "no", they walk away, just as they turn their backs it explodes and there's green fire everywhere...
A girl in my class was putting together a pippette. She was holding onto the CENTRE of the pippette and squashing it into the thingy...geez I cant remember what they're called, anyways it snaps, goes straight through her wrist, she freaks out pulls it out, goes into shock, slips, it slices up her thumb. Blood starts spurting EVERYWHERE (Gross, dark, black like coloured blood *pukes*) She decides she needs to lie down, so lies down on the chemistry bench, which was covered in glass from the pipette breaking. Our earth science teacher comes in to see what the comotion is about - and laughs at her.
Then we are working with organic stuff, and I end up with her as a partner, with a damaged shaky hand. She INSISTS on doing everything herself, but makes me hold the conical flask as she goes to pour in the organic stuff - i had no gloves on as my teacher decided as my hands are so small, gloves would only get in my way- so here I am trying to keep up with her violently shaking hand so she doesn't spill the stuff all over me.
Acid - strong acid - there was a bottle of it that we were all meant to get our own beaker full from - the boys, for some stupid reason, couldn't remember that, and came and took mine without telling me, they also spilled it all around my beaker and I didnt know, so I pick it up, my hands get covered in acid. But because the heaters in my school are too noisy, we werent allowed to have them on, so my hands were too numb to notice. then I put my hand on my jumper, and i notice, ooo, theres jumper stuck to my hand, then im notified that oops, they spilt acid all over my beaker - I pull off my glove that was somewhat sticking to my hand, put my hand under water, and it starts to lightly blister - im forced to wash my jumper in the chemistry sink - and end up spending the day without a jumper - on a cold rainy day.
Ok, thats about it, for now, lol.
Oh, and my jumper now has white patches where I got the acid on it.
