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What is the scariest reaction/syth that you do?
Just wondering, but what is the scariest, or most uncomfortable reaction or syth that you do or have done? What do you dislike about it? What would
be your contingency plan in the event of the unexpected?
Thanks!
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cyanureeves
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fulminating gold that blew up between my legs and up to my face was the scariest.next time i will not let it get dry,next time i will LISTEN when i'm
told about ammonia compounds.recovering gold has always been a hit or miss for me when doing small batches.fulminating gold though will always form
without fail and with tiny amounts of gold too.this compound hasnt really been much of a benefit at gold plating for me so i am in no hurry to make it
again.i hate explosives because a human being can be gone in a blink of an eye.anything that can disappear in a split second is not worth the effort
to make in my opinion.
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Zombie
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Separating two canines. The reaction is instantaneous, and violent. The resulting by products are most unpleasant (urine, blood, feces, fur, skin),
and can take hours to clean up.
That's probably the most unpleasant , and dangerous reaction around my lab.
They tried to have me "put to sleep" so I came back to return the favor.
Zom.
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szuko03
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The scariest and stupidest thing i did was allow a nitration of glycerin to go out of hand. I was young and just playing around with mixing this and
that basically and my friends grandmother had glycerin style suppositories, basically looked like little rifle bullets. Anyway I mixed them with some
potassium nitrate in sulfuric acid and heated it. It was so terribly impure and boarder line pointless because anything that came of it would have
been in a mixture of god knows what.
But being stupid and not expecting it to work at all as it was literally "mix stump remover, with drain opener and add the suppositories" which for
minutes did nothing at all then like instantly the bullet like suppository melted and the mixture became outrageously hot and boiling evolving nitric
oxide and possibly creating NG in a hot acidic environment in my friends enclosed room. I heroically grabbed the vessel and took it outside placing it
on the ground. That friend thinks the story is hilarious and loves the fact I did it, it like makes that part of his life interesting "remember that
summer..." comes up every few years 
I learned a lot about not mixing random things and we all have to learn somehow. It is funny because here that is probably acceptable anyone else
hears the story thinks im crazy.
Chemistry is a natural drive, not an interest.
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byko3y
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I always feel uncomfortable whne making primary explosives. I wonder how it is made on industrial scale. Probably in small batches (up to 5 g) and
costs a lot. And you actually need to press this stuff before it can be used - this is the scarriest one. Few times I briefly lost hearing testing
this stuff, thanks god I've never had any incedental detonations.
Cyanogen and H2S made me little nervous, although I see no danger in them, until you do them on few moles scale.
Also, one time I burned a piece of floor by spilling a burning gasoline on it. It was scary to see the flames being as high as you are, but it had
finished burning relatively fast, and I had not time to really scary, because I needed to extinguish fire.
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blargish
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I too had a nervous encounter with H2S during the preparation of a sodium polysulfide solution for use in a Zinin Reduction to make
picramic acid. I didn't anticipate that a boiling polysulfide solution would emit enough H2S to become problematic; however, the distinct
smell of rotten eggs was persistent and I ended up getting a bloody nose (strange, since I almost never get them), which I later found is one of the
symptoms of lower-level H2S exposure... yikes.
Anything involving primaries always has me on edge (in my somewhat limited experience with them), which I guess is a good thing as a heightened sense
of caution is always welcome when working with those. Also, anything involving the formation, and subsequent inhalation, of nitrogen oxides is never
fun 
BLaRgISH
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Sodium metal in ethanol. Its not fun to stand next to.
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Ozone
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Bahahaha! Szuko tried to nitrate suppositories and had a runaway! Funniest thing I have heard in a long time.
The most dangerous thing I have done (and this is relative to a few dangerous things), involved sealed tube reactions (in glass with teflon threaded
caps). I once had one literally strip the threads on the cap and (unexpectedly) discharge the contents at 160°C. The cap was a heavy projectile, and
the solvent (THF) instantly vaporized. Fortunately, it did not catch fire...but, it was a serious pain to clean the resulting mess out of the hood.
Fortunately, I did not have to clean a similar mess out of my pants...but, it was close.
O3
-Anyone who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein
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I made bromine via the TCCA, HCl, and NaBr method yesterday, and I added the acid way too quickly. Most of the ~25mL came over in under a minute, and
I almost ran out of the lab. Thanks to my fume hood, I didn't even smell the bromine.
[Edited on 5-6-2015 by subsecret]
Fear is what you get when caution wasn't enough.
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byko3y
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Well, sarin is not VX and is as dangerous as phosgen. You need fumehood/closed apparatus/closed breathing system + someone with first aid kit staying
next to you.
It's much worse when you incedentally synthesize phosgen without realizing this fact, like adding conc H2SO$ into CCl4 or passing chlorine over ember.
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Loptr
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Quote: Originally posted by Ozone  | Bahahaha! Szuko tried to nitrate suppositories and had a runaway! Funniest thing I have heard in a long time.
The most dangerous thing I have done (and this is relative to a few dangerous things), involved sealed tube reactions (in glass with teflon threaded
caps). I once had one literally strip the threads on the cap and (unexpectedly) discharge the contents at 160°C. The cap was a heavy projectile, and
the solvent (THF) instantly vaporized. Fortunately, it did not catch fire...but, it was a serious pain to clean the resulting mess out of the hood.
Fortunately, I did not have to clean a similar mess out of my pants...but, it was close.
O3
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Where you using one of those glass pressure vessels? I just got one and was wondering what the operating conditions were, as I can't seem to find them
listed anywhere.
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szuko03
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Yes I was young and stupid basically found some old anarchists cook book type stuff. Honestly it was one of the best things I could have done it kind
of marked a significant change in my life. Use to be chemistry was just something I did to impress friends with things like pressure vessel noise
makers if you will from evolving hydrogen gas or CO2 in an enclosed space and I would actually make an attempt at understanding the chemical equations
occurring but this gave me the field of organic chemistry in a relevant way and in an at home way.
I was always into chemistry but this make it way more available its hard to explain but that was the "precursor" to my home lab if you will.
Chemistry is a natural drive, not an interest.
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