Okay so this reminds me of something that happened in a college chemistry class and I was wondering if someone here can offer an explanation.
We were doing an experiment that first involved dissolving some copper into a solution, then chilling it to add another ingredient, then heating it on a hot plate. After doing all the other steps, I placed my beaker on the hot plate and turned around, then I heard a hissing sound. I turned back around just in time to see my beaker flying off the hot plate, off the counter, and smash on the floor.
My best explanation for this is that since the hot plate was already hot, some condensation from the previous chill step had dripped down, flashed to steam, and propelled the beaker off the hot plate.
Yeah, the bottom of the beaker was probably wet. I've seen them scoot sideways a little as the moisture flashes off but never all the way off a hotplate though.
Clearly, the most reasonable explanation is ghosts. The only sensible thing to do is repeat the experiment after ingesting a spirit resonance enhancing substance, like peyote.
12 Comments
YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip · 35 pts · 153d
"Measurements". Obviously this beaker never graduated.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 153d
A beaker is just a husky graduated cylinder.
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 152d
While you may be tempted to measure volumes with a beaker, for the love of God don't use a graduated cylinder on the hotplate!
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 153d
It's not fat it's just... robust! 😤
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 153d
If it falls off the surface edge then it's a drop-out.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 11 pts · 153d
Fun fact: you can fill out the form without having spilled the beaker... YET!
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 153d
We love near-miss incident reports
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 153d
Ok, you dial 9 - 1, in case I don’t come back.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 153d
Okay so this reminds me of something that happened in a college chemistry class and I was wondering if someone here can offer an explanation.
We were doing an experiment that first involved dissolving some copper into a solution, then chilling it to add another ingredient, then heating it on a hot plate. After doing all the other steps, I placed my beaker on the hot plate and turned around, then I heard a hissing sound. I turned back around just in time to see my beaker flying off the hot plate, off the counter, and smash on the floor.
My best explanation for this is that since the hot plate was already hot, some condensation from the previous chill step had dripped down, flashed to steam, and propelled the beaker off the hot plate.
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 152d
Yeah, the bottom of the beaker was probably wet. I've seen them scoot sideways a little as the moisture flashes off but never all the way off a hotplate though.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 152d
Clearly, the most reasonable explanation is ghosts. The only sensible thing to do is repeat the experiment after ingesting a spirit resonance enhancing substance, like peyote.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 152d
This is cultural appropriation of my kind.