• Question: how many explosions have you created

    Asked by anon-279007 on 5 Feb 2021.
    • Photo: Michael Nolan

      Michael Nolan answered on 5 Feb 2021:

      Interesting profile name there!! Or do you like Mars Bars 🙂

      As a theory and simulation scientist I do not get that opportunity any more, but as a student in my undergraduate days I made a few explosions – mainly through letting chemicals such as ether get a bit too hot.
      Unless you work on energetic materials (i.e. explosives) I think a lot of these explosions are simply due to lack of thinking about what you are doing

    • Photo: Liam Taylor

      Liam Taylor answered on 5 Feb 2021:

      I once set fire to a computer I was working on half way up a mountain. It was particularly impressive because it was below 0 degrees and there really isn’t that much oxygen at those altitudes.

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