When things go bang!

Recently, the temperature in our lab has been pretty arctic, and I'm not even sure if it's legal for us to be working under these conditions. Not that anyone is actually going to stop coming in. Anyway, after a series of complaints, we finally had a guy coming round to fix the heating so today, we were greeted by a more tepid climate.

Of course, one of the basic theories they teach in GCSE Physics and Chemistry is particle theory i.e. that a gas expands upon heating on account of the molecules possessing more kinetic energy from the increase in temperature. We finally got a chance to see this in action today, when I kid you not, one of the solvent bottles exploded with a bang, sending shards of glass flying and knocking other bottles to the ground.

Given my response of "oh", this all sounds much more dramatic than it actually was.

The worrying thing is that instead of springing into action and cleaning it up, everyone gathered around to stare at the pool of acetone spreading across the ground, violating every single health and safety code of conduct out there. I shudder to think what would happen in a real emergency.

Anyway, this was all forgotten in the wake of the much more important email announcement: PAYDAY!

So of course I went out to Soho and spent an obscene fraction of it on celebratory cocktails.

Awww yeah.