Exploding demo injures chemistry students
'Rainbow experiment' creates fireball
Two students at a US high school were seriously injured last week when a chemistry demonstration exploded. This happened when a teacher at a high school in Manhattan, New York, was demonstrating the colours of flames produced by metal solutions in methanol.
David Sait covers the accident, sharing CLEAPSS' advice on how to avoid accidents, and alternate ways to demonstrate the flame colours of metal salts.
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