Probably the most dangerous thing I've done in a chemistry lab is the
distillation of diazomethane.
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > >No iodine crystals, either, I take it?
> > >
> > >NB: If you don't know what you could do with these you probably had a much
> > >safer childhood.
> >
> > Ammonium triiodide isn't so dangerous. I had some kind of chemistry for the
> > farm book with stuff like how to make fulminate of mercury and more serious
> > stuff.
>
> Ammonium tri-iodide can be dangerous if mishandled. There's also the
> common mis-belief that it is safe when wet.
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Received on Wed Nov 07 2001 - 13:34:36 GMT