A little more detail would have killed them?

New Age Redneck: At least they didn't mistake it for Hydrofluoric or Perchloric acid.

Screw that weak crap, fluoroantimonic acid is where it's at these days

MAYORBOB: FedExPope: MAYORBOB: Teacher dissolved sugar in nitric acid rather than sulfuric acid. The result was oxalic acid, the fumes of which aren't good to breathe in.

Article says teacher mistook H2SO4 for HNO3, not the other way around.

This article, which is a bit more of a local source than subby's link, reports it the way I reported it.

This makes more sense .... original article had me wondering what the reaction was. I remember the giant carbon turd from mixing conc suphuric and sugar in a 100ml beaker; nitric is in general much better at producing nasty noxiousness :)

/ never a chem nerd, but like most folks I do like to blow shiat up
// nitrogen tri-iodide makes awesome fly paper

Louisiana_Sitar_Club: Because People in power are Stupid: Poor little Johnny,
Isn't Johnny anymore,
For what he thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4

One of my techs diluted chloric acid with what she thought was DI water but was actually a sucrose solution. It turned a very dark brown and looked just like Pepsi. I still have the label that I printed up for it. I taped it to the bottle and left it up on the shelf. Eventually we decided that it was just a tad too much liability and the chuckles were long over so we tossed it.

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You deserve a smack upside the head for miswriting HCl as HCL. Case matters.

FedExPope: MAYORBOB: Teacher dissolved sugar in nitric acid rather than sulfuric acid. The result was oxalic acid, the fumes of which aren't good to breathe in.

Article says teacher mistook H2SO4 for HNO3, not the other way around.

This article, which is a bit more of a local source than subby's link, reports it the way I reported it.

The nerd is strong in this thread.

SomeTexan: Tricky Chicken: I am probably wrong,

If you mis sulfuric acid with sugar, you get a big growing carbon marshmallow or something.

If you do the same with nitric acid you get nitro glycerine.

Naw, nitroglycerin you get when adding first sulfuric then nitric to fats containing a lot of glycerin. Boom!

Also, kids: Don't try this at home! Boom!

JackieRabbit: Virtue: JackieRabbit: A little more detail would have killed them?

A little more detail would have given great public insight on how to make a bomb.

Anyone can make a bomb. It's so freakin' easy. And you can get everything you need at Home Depot.

The next sound you hear, citizen, will be the authorities knocking at you door

Because People in power are Stupid: Poor little Johnny,
Isn't Johnny anymore,
For what he thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4

One of my techs diluted chloric acid with what she thought was DI water but was actually a sucrose solution. It turned a very dark brown and looked just like Pepsi. I still have the label that I printed up for it. I taped it to the bottle and left it up on the shelf. Eventually we decided that it was just a tad too much liability and the chuckles were long over so we tossed it.

theorellior: I love the stock photo of some guy holding an Erlenmeyer flask with his bare hands over the opening. If that photo is supposed to show some clear chemical in the flask, not water, then only a dumbass would use his hands and not a stopper.

/Ooooh, 6M hydrochloric! Glacial acetic! No gloves, no worries!

Since when is water not a chemical?