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9 minutes ago, Old Man said:

 

 

Wait... seriously... "The scene was so volatile that authorities barred the rest of the apartment building’s residents from re-entering their homes, and burned the entire building to the ground in a 1,600-degree controlled blaze overseen by 100 firefighters. Residents left their valuables inside."   ???? ?

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17 hours ago, Old Man said:

 

The substance they list is... acetone. That's right, nail polish remover. You can buy the 99.5+% stuff from Amazon.

 

It can be a precursor to some rather nasty stuff, which I suspect is the real reason why they evacuated and burned the building.

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It's not explosive on its own though but you can do bad things with the pure stuff. In addition to nail polish, it'll  dissolve most plastics and polyesters. 

 

Had  an incident in freshman chem lab where a young lady spilled it all over herself and melted her clothes and underwear in about 30 seconds. Our TA nobly sacrificed his lab coat so she could go to her dorm and change. Luckily it doesn't do skin that quickly and she was unhurt but except for the real life trauma of being naked in class.

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9 hours ago, Grailknight said:

It's not explosive on its own though but you can do bad things with the pure stuff. In addition to nail polish, it'll  dissolve most plastics and polyesters. 

 

Had  an incident in freshman chem lab where a young lady spilled it all over herself and melted her clothes and underwear in about 30 seconds. Our TA nobly sacrificed his lab coat so she could go to her dorm and change. Luckily it doesn't do skin that quickly and she was unhurt but except for the real life trauma of being naked in class.

 

That's a pretty impressive job of klutzing it up.  Lucky for her it wasn't something more corrosive than acetone.

 

I'm going to guess she didn't wind up with a degree in chemistry. :D

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