• Question: What is the most dangerous/ exciting experiment you have ever done

    Asked by anon-357977 on 20 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 20 Mar 2023:

      Every experiment is exciting as you get to learn something new about science.

      The most dangerous experiment is did really didn’t start out that way. I was trying to distil a compound that I needed to purify it with another PhD student while I was a student. The substance exploded and we both lost our hearing for a couple of days.

    • Photo: Maryam Sani

      Maryam Sani answered on 20 Mar 2023:

      The experiments are all exciting, perhaps the Thermit reaction is one of the most memorable.

    • Photo: Clara Zehe

      Clara Zehe answered on 20 Mar 2023:

      All experiments are exciting because you get to learn lots of cool new things.
      I work a lot with lasers, so that’s probably the most dangerous. But we wear special glasses that protect our eyes and we are very careful when we work with them.

    • Photo: Jade Markham

      Jade Markham answered on 31 Mar 2023:

      I have distilled a pyrophoric – a liquid that reacts with oxygen in the air and will burst into flames. To distill I had to heat the liquid very hot and have the flask under vacuum. I was sweating the whole time I did it, but with all things in the lab I did it as safely as possible and nothing bad happened

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