Quote Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight View Post
psh like thats dangerous.. i sometimes have to work with HF

i dont know if you even know what it is, so ill explain

HF smells like water
HF looks like water
HF feels like water
HF seeps into your bloodstream through skin contact, dissolves your bones and kills you!
Is that the stuff you can use to etch glass? I remember my chem/physics teacher talking about etching glass back in the day with some compound they won't even let into the [high school] classroom anymore.

He also told some old tales about someone dumping a large quantity of sodium in a creek that rattled windows a mile away.

I'm never certain which of his tales are accurate and which have expaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanded with the 30 years he's taught chemistry. (my dad before me! and my dad's OLD)

I don't remember ever making much on chem lab days other than solutions of copper and stuff. The flame tests were more fun 8)

also I would always peek when magnesium was exposed to air/burnt/whatever. It was beautiful.