Geoff - Yes - see if you can get the footage of the damage done in a lab in Idaho.
Tresa -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff McAuliffe Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 12:17 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] RE: picric acid "Our chemical safety office informed us that friction from removing a cap can be enough to set it off." I have heard this for many, many years but has there ever been a case of such a thing happening? Of course we should be cautions and keep our picric acid wet but ... I have seen news clips in which the bomb squad packs explosives around the picric acid (from an old high school lab) out in a field and sets it off. BOOM! Sure, the picric acid was surrounded by explosives. Geoff On 2/3/2012 2:04 PM, Goins, Tresa wrote: > The picric acid around the cap would not be "1%". The acetone is long gone. > Wipe the threads or pipette the reagent from the bottle. > Our chemical safety office informed us that friction from removing a cap can > be enough to set it off. > > Tresa > > -----Original Message----- > From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Perry, > Margaret > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 11:51 AM > To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: [Histonet] picric acid > > I am curious how big an explosion there would be from 1% picric acid in > acetone if a little dried around the cap. > > Margaret Perry HT(ASCP) > Dept of Veterinary and Biomedical services Box 2175 South Dakota > State University Brookings SD 57007 > 605-688-5638 > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > -- -- ********************************************** Geoff McAuliffe, Ph.D. Neuroscience and Cell Biology Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 voice: (732)-235-4583 mcaul...@umdnj.edu ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet