You're going to have to move to a smaller font or go double column soon.
Harry
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU] On Behalf Of Samuella B. Sigmann
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 6:25 PM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] 'Large fireball' injures students in chemistry experiment gone wrong
Their definition of "experiment" is also significantly different than the one I use.... Watching colored flames burn hardly evokes the scientific method. I have updated the presentation slide...
- Oklahoma City, OK - November 2011
- Maple Grove, MN - December 2011
- Frisco, TX - September 2013
- Avondale, AZ - November , 2013
- New York, NY - January 2014
- Reno, NV - September 2014
- Denver, CO - September 2014
- Raymond, IL - October, 2014
- Chicago, IL - November, 2014
- Tallahassee, FL - May 2015
- Washington, DC - October 30, 2015
- Perth Amboy, NJ - May 24, 2017
- New York, NY - November 22, 2017
And over a decade ago, the Associated Press reported that at least 150 students had been seriously injured in school laboratory accidents between 1998 and 2002. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/beacon-teacher-faulted-experiment-leaves-students-badly-burned-article-1.1565533
... at least they will get into a "good" university. (Sorry, I could not resist). Everyone have a safe Thanksgiving.
S-
On 11/22/2017 5:35 PM, Stuart, Ralph wrote:
I am willing to guess that the school's report that "there were no hazardous materials involved" relies on a definition of "hazardous materials" different from the one I use...
- Ralph
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/large-fireball-injures-students-in-chemistry-experiment-gone-wrong/ar-BBFvnmw?li=BBnbcA1
'Large fireball' injures students in chemistry experiment gone wrong
Four students at an elite all-girls Catholic high school in New York City reportedly suffered burns and respiratory injuries Wednesday after a "large fireball" exploded in a chemistry experiment gone wrong.
A teacher at the school was conducting a flame experiment in front of a class and the flame apparently grew too large, Sister Patricia Wolf, president of St. Catherine Academy, told NBC New York.
"This morning an accident occurred during a demonstration in which several students were singed by a flame in the chemistry lab," the school said in a statement. "Four students were sent to the hospital. There were no hazardous materials involved."
The teacher was distraught after the incident, Wolf said, but all the students are expected to be okay, NBC New York reported. The parents of all the students were notified by text.
The private school, which charges around $9,000 per year in tuition, has "a 100 percent college acceptance rate to some of the finest colleges and universities in the world," its website says.
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