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by peglasaurus 2356 days ago
"Look at the boring explosion. Did that entire hillside just vaporise? How boring!"

Said no one ever

I remember a chemistry teacher running around in panic because he dropped a sample of something (phosphorus or sodium ?) on his shoe and it was stuck. He had carefully taken it out of a small oil filled container. Smoke filled the room. His shoe was burnt and four classes surrounding that lab were evacuated.