lists wrote:
> In article <000f01c68566$b8926c80$0501a8c0@AZATHOTH>,
> Leon Heller <leon.heller@...> wrote:
>
>> Acetone is ethyl ketone. I remember making it at school; the reaction
>> got out of hand, blowing the condenser etc. out of the flask and
>> shattering them on the ceiling. A green fountain of copper filings,
>> copper sulphate, sulphuric acid and ethanol shot up to the lab ceiling
>> and rained down on us, together with broken glass. The green stain was
>> still there when I left a couple of years later in 1960, it's probably
>> still there.
>>
>
> Ah the days of /real/ chemistry at school
>
>
Speaking of chemistry -
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/chemistry.htmlCheers,
Bryan
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