07 May 2010

Incident :O

Well hehe i wanna story about what happened at our chemistry lab but then iman alrdy posted about it in her blog and so i'll just copy paste here, created by iman nedhiera "

Anyway, I had a good time at school today. Especially during Chemistry, when something 'exploded'. We were in the lab, doing an experiment. My particular group was, in fact, very unlucky. We were instructed to melt some lead (II) bromide until it becomes a silvery molten liquid, and then after it has melted, we had to place a couple of electrodes in it.

So we did all of that aaanndddd, suddenly the molten liquid gave a small explosion, the tiny cup that contained the liquid exploded as well and shattered, and the whole bunsen burner was on fire. The bunsen burner was on fire! All we saw was a huge ball of fire. For a few seconds we just stood there staring at the burning bunsen burner, our expressions clearly portrayed that we were panicked and appalled. Luckily Tasha was there and shouted to turn off the bunsen burner. And the funny thing is, the incident happened to only our group, not the other seven groups. We didn't know how it happened, but our teacher said that we were heating the substance for too long. We had a different theory; maybe there was a tiny hole in the gas pipe, causing some gas to leak, hence causing the minor explosion. But we couldn't tell for sure.

Luckily my classmate who took care of the electrodes didn't stand too close, or else she would've gotten hurt. But she did get affected by it. A small amount of the molten silver liquid found its way to her pinafore. And poor Myrrah, her baju kurung was affected, too.

Man, that was a really scary experience. Just imagine what would've happened if Tasha didn't instruct us to turn off the bunsen burner immediately, since a fire can spread in just a matter of minutes.

But still, it was cool to see the molten lead harden and sort of crystallize where it was spilled. It kind of looked like a silvery-gold crystal, in the shape of someone's barf. But nonetheless, it was sort of cool."

So u see the conclusion is, im the superhero HAHAHA im kidding, well it was rlly scary especially when the fire is right in front of my face, it was my group's experiment, and they all were watching from kinda a far distant, i had to be close to the apparatus because i was the observer, i was supposed to write the results and observation. So my face was the closest to the thing. Well alhamdulillah, the crucible didn't explode my way. But it was unlucky for myra coz the lead (ii) bromide stained her baju kurung. and poor elaine, some of it, just a lil spot got onto her leg? Well yeah, we were all shocked because the fire exploded, :/

OH YEAH AND THANKS YOU GUYS FOR STORYING ABOUT MY FUNERAL WHILE RECESS. haha TO SONIA, ASH, IMAN, ATASHA, AINA, NAHRA, AMELIA AND ETC, THANKS A LOT!! >:( ESPECIALLY U SONIA, I'LL SERIOUSLY HAUNT U WHEN I DIE! hahahaha. but anyways, it was fun so i dont mind :D haha.

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