Same thing happened to me a long time ago only it was a new lab manager who
saw the bottle of picric acid stored pretty much the same way as you
describe and pitched a fit. Not only did he call the bomb squad but I got
written up for having it in the lab. Totally unfair! It was in the lab
before I started working there, stored improperly in the Chemistry dept.
Andi
At 05:15 PM 4/16/2007 -0400, Esther Peters wrote:
>A friend of mine working at a U.S. government lab was doing just that (had
>filled the bottle to the top with water, sealed around the lid with
>parafilm and tape to prevent dehydration) and the new safety officer who
>saw it called the bomb squad to remove it!
>
>Esther Peters
>George Mason University
>
>Markus F. Meyenhofer wrote:
>
>>Don't panic now!!!
>>That is why one stores Picric acid as a water saturated mixture! Never
>>heard of an explosion of picric acid in a histo lab!
>>Markus
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Llewellyn"
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>>>I thought Histonetters might be interested in this news article.
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>>>http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070416/K041602AU.html
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>>>Bryan Llewellyn
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