try this limerick,…

johnny was a chemist’s son- now johnny is no more,

what he thought was H2O was H2S04!

How approximately what happens whilst one would not positioned on secure practices glasses/goggles. conserving up a try tube to a minimum of one’s face, saying, “Oh, do not concern, Prof! it particularly is okay! type is over!” POOF! it particularly is not a shaggy dog tale. Nobel-Prize-Winner Professor ok. Barry Sharpless, now at Scripps analyze Institute, whilst he replaced into nevertheless a pupil at MIT, lost the sight in a single eye one nighttime whilst he took off his secure practices glasses, positioned on a jacket, and commenced dwelling house. “howdy, Barry!” a fellow pupil stated. “Come look at this!” Sharpless went into the different lab and took a tiny capillary tube that his fellow pupil presented him. interior the subsequent 2nd, Sharpless found out that this replaced right into a tube that have been saved on the temperature of liquid nitrogen, and replaced into now warming interior the air. The tension would desire to be huge. Sharpless theory to place the tube down. In that 2nd, the tube burst and despatched a splinter of glass into Sharpless’s eye.