From the article: Lab Accidents and Lab Stories
Do you have any tales to tell of lab experiments gone very wrong or lab accidents you have witnessed? What is the most dangerous thing you have ever seen someone do in a lab? Here's your chance to tell the tale. Share Your Stories
A Freshman in Regents Chem
- I was cleaning the beakers out in the sink because my lab partner refused to do any of the work in the experiment or in cleaning up. She even had the nerve to comment on my handwriting when she was copying off of me. So I was stuck cleaning the glassware, shaking the beaker to be rid of the last drops of water, when it accidentally slipped out of my hand and smashed onto the table where she was sitting. She had a minuscule splinter in her pinky. No one but me was sorry.
- —futurdujour
lab accident
- Once upon a time in my chemistry class, one mate sipped dilute sodium hydroxide out of a pipette during titration lessons. Our chemistry tutor took his time to teach the entire class how to use the pipette.
- —Guest Mariam Tahiru
Stupid teacher
- My science teacher made this blue spiral thing in a old pyrex beaker he didnt tell everyone to were goggles instead he told them to get closer to the beaker and suddenley BANG!! the beacker exploded glass everywhere luckily no one was harmed
- —Guest Bradley
Acid on Arm
- Me and my mate waz doing an experiment and she knocked some acid ova. It went all ova my arm now I've got a big scar.
- —Guest lola
Windows...
- My Cousins chemistry teacher once did an experiment but he did it wrong and the windows and skylight flew out but thankfully, the students had taken refuge outside before it happened. He still hasn't told me how he did it!
- —Guest hydrochloricacid200
Fire oops...
- One of my college friends was playing with rubbing alcohol, tracing out patterns on the lab table. Then she would set one end alight to watch the pretty blue flame trace out the alcohol path. If small doodles are fun, what about large ones? My friend came up with a grand plan and enlisted another friend to go out into the hallway with the alcohol bottle and lighter. A couple minutes later, a loud 'wuff' noise and orange glow appeared through the door followed by the sound of 'Uh oh!' I learned how to properly use a fire extinguisher and managed to clean up enough where the only evidence of the experiment was a pattern of missing floor wax on the linoleum.
- —Phoozang
