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Originally Posted by Baddad
Hi Mark, 
I'm reluctant to confess what I used to get up to in school. I was the top chem student and the Lab assistant was a close personal friend of mine. I learnt a lot very quickly. Youthful exuberance motivated me.
I never dared to pull pranks during chem class  but the english and geography classes were fair game.  Even the maths and physics classes experienced a little bang now and then. 
In class the slightest shift of a student desk would trigger the paste on the floor. The huge bang and crimson smoke attracted undue attention. The "victim" was often blamed for the disruption. 
Smoke bombs led to class evacuations; touch paste, exploding chalk as it touched the blackboard, Blackboard dusters exploded on contact. I was never caught. I told no one it was me.
The toilets were not safe. Mainly the female ones. 
That's just briefly what I got up to. I won't admit I went to school in South Aust.
Cheers Marty |
G'day Marty.
Well I am glad you didn't have my current formula because it certainly goes off with a bang and produces a lot of heat. I used to use another powder I would make up whilst doing afternoon labs at uni. Some of the reactions would take an age to complete so you mostly stood around starring at bubbling solutions and it could get very boring. Somehow the powder always seemed to find it's way under toilet seats and occasionally sprinkeled down the odd hall way or stair well. This stuff went off with a lot less of a bang then what I use now but it was always very amusing to watch people doing the touch powder dance when they came into contact with the stuff
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Mark