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There are many interesting reaction results: - Colors - Lights - Precipitates - Temperatures - Voltages and currents - Crystal formation -
by LeifCarrotson 10y ago
There are many interesting reaction results:
- Colors
- Lights
- Precipitates
- Temperatures
- Voltages and currents
- Crystal formation
- Smells
- Tastes (for certain safe reactions)
- Compounds with interesting applications
- And, of course, explosions
And some of these are certainly explored in many chemistry introductions.
But I have to disagree, of these many interesting reactions, none is more interesting or exciting than an explosion.
- IanCal 10y agoExplosions also combine several of these.
- logfromblammo 10y agoOne of my old chem profs would flick little bits of dry NI3 into the lecture hall once per year. It makes a sharp popping sound and leaves a slowly-disappearing stain, and won't kill your students.
- Florin_Andrei 10y ago> Explosions also combine several of these. Pretty much all of them actually, in some ways. But it's always a bad sign when you're experiencing various tastes as a result of an explosion.
- Bartweiss 10y agoOn which note, Lowe's piece on ClF3 is a great example of explosions producing lots of different experiences. It contains one of my all-time favorite sentences: > It’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...