• Question: what is the most explosive science experiment you have ever done?

    Asked by close.book281 to Adam, Adele, Deborah, Matt, Samantha on 21 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Deborah Aitken

      Deborah Aitken answered on 21 Jun 2017:

      Usually science isn’t meant to explode. In my work if something explodes then that’s very bad! I did accidentally blow up a boiling tube in A-Level though.

    • Photo: Matthew Lee

      Matthew Lee answered on 21 Jun 2017:

      I dont work with anything that explodes like you mean. But i do work with chemicals that if you put fire on them they will explode…….so we dont use fire near them

    • Photo: Adam Hargreaves

      Adam Hargreaves answered on 22 Jun 2017:

      Wasn’t really an experiment, more like messing around on a quiet day but…dry ice bombs. Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide and is extremely cold, but at room temperature it melts very quickly into a gas. So we put pieces of it into a tube, sealed them, eventually the pressure builds up and then BANG!
      Definitely don’t do that though, i did it when we had a new lab member just walking into the lab and it nearly scared her to death.

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