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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
- Subject: Re: H2O2
- References: <1993Jan21.003009.16321@cs.rochester.edu> <1993Jan21.152605.22932@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1993Jan21.220757.16035@cs.rochester.edu>
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- Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:00:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.210056.9568@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Summary: The pyro-newbie shoots his mouth off again.
- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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- dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >
- >Hot hydrogen peroxide can experience runaway decomposition or
- >detonation, but I was thinking of vacuum distillation.
-
- The real danger in working with concentrated H2O2 is grease on your glassware,
- which can result in the formation of nasty, unstable organic peroxides of all
- sorts. Organic peroxides are a major cause of lab accidents among organic
- chemists.
-
- Seth L. Blumberg \ "The whole thing was an accident. No saboteur
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ could have been so wildly optimistic as to think
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ he could destroy an airplane this way."
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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