• Question: What is the most dangerous science experiment you have done?

    Asked by to Rowena, Roy, Kieren on 21 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 21 Mar 2014:


      Definitely the experiment I did in my last year at Oxford doing research… We got a met so flammable it ignites on contact with water and dussolved it in extremely toxic ammonia gas condensed to liquid under high vaccuum and liw temperature using dry ice and then addedbtoxic seleniunmposwdee. 50% of the time we did it it blew up once my supervisor git splattered and ean down the vorridor screaming “am I on fire?” ( he wasn’t)

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