Dense. British. Same word.
Well, you wanted to know when the insolence started. :-)
So my ability on a physics practical
Is that the same as what we call "lab"- -as in "you go in the lab, do some 'experiment', then try to massage the garbage measurements into something resembling what they should be."
I particularly remember a freshman college lab where we were supposed to measure e/m for the electron. Trouble was, they gave us junk to do it with. Orders of magnitude off.
At chemistry, OTOH, I yielded to none my ability to produce percussive or oxidative explosives from basic lab ingredients.
Ah, yes, explosions, fires, and poisons are the best part of chemistry. :-)
A favorite in high school chem was to make nitrogen triiodide and scatter the crystals in the schools halls. They dry, people step on them- -POP!
I narrowly lost the school chemistry prize to a close friend who'd specialised in poisons, his triumph was getting most of the block evacuated after he demonstrated that phosgene really could be generated that easily
LOL!!! Yeah, it's not hard. Best to be very cautious though, because you may be it's first victim!
So how many years did he do for that stunt?
but I feel I won the moral battle by turning a ballpoint into soot while sat only 2m from the teacher.
And you still passed? Very forgiving teacher. And how did you do this? |
