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Quote: Originally posted by Etaoin Shrdlu

Isn't that just a space heater? It didn't seem to have the fan turned on. He says he wiped down the area around it with no measurable increase of radioactivity on the towel.

Would YOU fry a radioactive powder that way?

Probably not. I would have been a lot more concerned about how it was just left to sit in the middle of the room on a piece of filter paper though.

posted on 19-12-2014 at 17:42

And what about these pool side filtrations? I was kind of waiting for his set up to tumble into the family's swimming pool!

That part made me cringe pretty hard, too. I just know I would have knocked that over.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPKuyQZ--X4

At least he had gloves on I guess

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posted on 19-12-2014 at 18:41

I hope you didn't actually watch that whole video LGA.

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posted on 19-12-2014 at 22:39

posted on 19-12-2014 at 22:56

I hope you didn't actually watch that whole video LGA.

Ermm I did eventually. I was speechless by the end

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Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS

see this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0PZWC17OA&src_vid=Gntz...

good tips ,i wish he was my chem teacher

He's right, you know?
Anyway, not a bad video, definitely not the topic of this thread

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posted on 19-12-2014 at 23:23

Quote: Originally posted by Little_Ghost_again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPKuyQZ--X4

At least he had gloves on I guess

The mind boggles from start to finish.

He's sentimentally attached to a 21year old car battery and re-used the plastic??? I just don't get it.
Not worth the hours spent or the potential acid burns.

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posted on 19-12-2014 at 23:28

Quote: Originally posted by Argentum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vyYrQm9uTA

Making "Hydrofluoric acid". No comments.

At first I thought "WTF, is he really trying to make HF in a pyrex glass test tube??!" but soon I realized that that's not even remotely the only issue with his experiment! Are you kidding me? Handling HF without any safety equipment?

This is how we handle HF: long-sleeved tyvek aprons, long heavy-duty gloves and full-face shield/mask. And a mandatory tub of calcium gluconate gel in the proximity, as well as a shower in the lab.

Because we take HF seriously.

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posted on 19-12-2014 at 23:39

Quote: Originally posted by Little_Ghost_again

posted on 20-12-2014 at 00:07

I hope you didn't actually watch that whole video LGA.

Ermm I did eventually. I was speechless by the end

I was speechless by the 3 minute mark already. The events surrounding the battery acid splash were but one of the reasons for my bafflement.

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This video shows behavior that is in many ways more dangerous than in the one posted by Argentum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4vq2UU9hk

I must say, I thin this is the video with the most egregious safety in handling dangerous chemicals, and it PROBABLY resulted in some (even though minor) damage to the retinas and mucous tissues of the people present. This is my candidate for "worst of the worst".

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posted on 20-12-2014 at 05:38

posted on 20-12-2014 at 05:45

70 % HF used with minimal safety precautions: pretty bad.

Interesting to see how vigorously it reacts with glass though: loads of presumed SiF₄ coming off...

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posted on 20-12-2014 at 08:53

70 % HF used with minimal safety precautions: pretty bad.

Interesting to see how vigorously it reacts with glass though: loads of presumed SiF₄ coming off...

Yeah, I've not seen such vigorous reaction of glass with HF. But honestly, I've never been silly enough to put HF in a glass vessel.

Also, I've never had the opportunity to use such concentrated HF solution.

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posted on 20-12-2014 at 10:47

Also, I've never had the opportunity to use such concentrated HF solution.

Keep it that way until you've been trained in using it and have the needed equipment and countermeasures in place in case of a mishap.

[Edited on 20-12-2014 by blogfast25]

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Quote: Originally posted by Little_Ghost_again

posted on 20-12-2014 at 20:31

I hope you didn't actually watch that whole video LGA.

Ermm I did eventually. I was speechless by the end

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Now I don't mean to be a jerk, because he's experimenting. I just don't understand the point. He dangerously took apart an old car battery, then used the case. In the end decided not to really use the case. So instead of taking a shower in lead/sulfuric acid he could of built the same thing in a rubber-made container for like 2 dollars.

Somehow I've never seen this thread before. The idiocy here is fantastic. It's just funny because people get worried about my technique when it comes to small things. IE: handling relatively small volumes strong acids without a lab-coat? c'mon... Here we have people making HF in glass test-tubes without gloves, cooking iphone's in sodium hydroxide, splish-splashing in 25year old lead acid battery electrolyte, drying radioactive peroxides with space heaters(after vacuum filtering them without support ~10cm away from the family pool). Love the guy 5cm away from the test-tube being digested and emitting copious amounts of steam + HF wearing kitchen gloves. There aren't even public service announcements dumb enough to mitigate such behaviours.

How about barefoot HCN synthesis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zluomv5gHdU

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My point was the video was sooo boring, I can't imagine a better way to waist your time.
The video probably wasn't that bad, but unless you're in the same position as him, why watch it?

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posted on 21-12-2014 at 05:35

posted on 21-12-2014 at 05:37

Also, I've never had the opportunity to use such concentrated HF solution.

Keep it that way until you've been trained in using it and have the needed equipment and countermeasures in place in case of a mishap.

[Edited on 20-12-2014 by blogfast25]

I do go through training for using HF (we use 49% concentration), which includes a hands-on and a written exam. I think that's more than 99% of the grad students do in the US before they get their hands on such chemicals. Just thought I'd point that out.

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posted on 21-12-2014 at 05:41

My point was the video was sooo boring, I can't imagine a better way to waist your time.
The video probably wasn't that bad, but unless you're in the same position as him, why watch it?

I, for one, didn't finish watching it. The last thing I saw was his mom helping him to disassemble the battery case (here a rollseyes emoticon would suit perfectly).

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Quote: Originally posted by smaerd

Somehow I've never seen this thread before. The idiocy here is fantastic. It's just funny because people get worried about my technique when it comes to small things. IE: handling relatively small volumes strong acids without a lab-coat? c'mon... Here we have people making HF in glass test-tubes without gloves, cooking iphone's in sodium hydroxide, splish-splashing in 25year old lead acid battery electrolyte, drying radioactive peroxides with space heaters(after vacuum filtering them without support ~10cm away from the family pool). Love the guy 5cm away from the test-tube being digested and emitting copious amounts of steam + HF wearing kitchen gloves. There aren't even public service announcements dumb enough to mitigate such behaviours.

How about barefoot HCN synthesis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zluomv5gHdU

Thank you very much for writing a nice summary of the thread so far

and also thank you for that link - that video is all kinds of shitty, but not enough info to know how dangerous the behavior was. But yeah, the overall shittyness makes it deserving of this thread.

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posted on 21-12-2014 at 10:23

posted on 21-12-2014 at 10:25

Excellent. Despite its potential lethality it's an extremely useful chemical.

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