[TML] Ingenious Chemistry, was Re: NY Reload

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 3/4/08 4:47 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Friends played with nitrogen triiodide in high school, torturing their
> chem teacher. (they splashed an alcoholic solution across the boys
> room floor. When it dries it becomes quite sensitive. The chem teacher
> was the one 'volunteered' go go around the room stamping his feet on
> the floor until it stopped exploding, according to the tales they
> told.) Another time they squirted some in the key of their chem
> classroom door. sticking the key in made a loud bang.

Never made any, but I love that stuff on principle.  :D