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<blockquote data-quote="piperbarb" data-source="post: 300177" data-attributes="member: 12214"><p>When I was an undergrad in Chemistry back in the dark ages of the last century, during the mid 1970s, at least once or twice a year, we would have to evacuate the Chem/Physics building because there would be something smoldering in one of the refrigerators or freezer in the graduate organic chem labs.&nbsp; The State Police bomb squad would come in their bomb suits (I always called them their aluminum suits), take out the smoldering offender on a 4x8 plank of wood and detonate it in the nature preserve.&nbsp; Yeah, the nature preserve.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Anyway, the offending substance was usually in a teeny tiny Erlenmeyer flask that could hold no more than maybe 10 or 15 ml, total.&nbsp; It made for great lunchtime talk with my humanities major friends.&nbsp; They were always so shocked.&nbsp; I thought it was funny.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="piperbarb, post: 300177, member: 12214"] When I was an undergrad in Chemistry back in the dark ages of the last century, during the mid 1970s, at least once or twice a year, we would have to evacuate the Chem/Physics building because there would be something smoldering in one of the refrigerators or freezer in the graduate organic chem labs. The State Police bomb squad would come in their bomb suits (I always called them their aluminum suits), take out the smoldering offender on a 4x8 plank of wood and detonate it in the nature preserve. Yeah, the nature preserve. :) Anyway, the offending substance was usually in a teeny tiny Erlenmeyer flask that could hold no more than maybe 10 or 15 ml, total. It made for great lunchtime talk with my humanities major friends. They were always so shocked. I thought it was funny. [/QUOTE]

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