No injuries were reported. There aren't any details as to what chemicals were mixed, but I have an excellent feeling this is overblown. What do you
think?Amos - 29-8-2014 at 19:40
You know those guys at the fire department were just itching to bring out the big guns. They freak out this same way anytime a couple of grams of
picric acid are found at a university.Magpie - 29-8-2014 at 19:51
That's my guess too: picric acid or maybe some TNT.
Didn't picric acid use to be made in school labs to make a yellow dye?Brain&Force - 29-8-2014 at 20:41
That's my guess too: picric acid or maybe some TNT.
Didn't picric acid use to be made in school labs to make a yellow dye?
That was my immediate thought, but it said they mixed two chemicals together. I heard about a bottle of mixed acetone and nitric acid exploded quite
violently at night in a lab once; maybe it's something along those lines.The_Davster - 29-8-2014 at 21:02
what retard found picric acid and wet themselves?Brain&Force - 30-8-2014 at 10:40
It was silver nitrate and ethanol. Isn't that mixture used in electrophilic substitutions, if I'm not mistaken?
Resulting in probable in situ formation of sensitive Ag fulminate...
CH3-CH2OH + AgNO3 -unequilibrated-> AgO-N=C + CO2 + H2O
A few mg into a glass recipient with flamable ethanol is quite a treat if spontaneous detonation occurs! A bit like an activated grenade...Maybe was
Bruno Mars involved? ... "I got a grenade for you..." Joke
