• Question: what is the most exstream thing you have done in a excperement?

    Asked by lmcglone19 to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I set fire to the hair on my arms once in a demonstration, on purpose. Though there wasn’t a point to it.

      I broke a thousand pound geiger counter once by poking the end of it. Oops.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      My experiments are not normally that exciting 🙁 I have put my hand in a bucket of dry ice for a demonstration though, and that was extremely cold!

    • Photo: Catherine Rix

      Catherine Rix answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      when I was an undergrad an experiment I was doing starting producing lots of gas becuase some of the chemicals got wet, the top popped off the flask and it made loads of steamy vapour. it was quite scary! Luckily there were some more experienced scientists in the lab with me at the time who hlped me sort it out.

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I’m not sure I’ve done anything very extreme. We were taught how to taste rocks when I studied geology (sandy ones, silty ones, and gritty ones). Right now, I have to be really careful with our experiment on the telescope because the lasers can blind you, so we have to wear special goggles.

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