SCHOOL
EXPERIMENT THAT BURNED BOY WAS FOCUS OF FEDERAL WARNING.
I
was so shocked when I first read this article. It refers to an
accident that took place in a Manhattan high school science lab: An
experiment went wrong and it left a boy with life-threatening burns
and two other students with minor burns. But this hasn't happened
only once, there have been at least seven more similar accidents in
the country with the very same experiment.
“The
rainbow demonstration” it is called. A very common experiment in
high schools in which you see a different color depending on the
substance that you burn. I suppose children enjoy that combination of
flashes and colors but if there have been students that have ended up
injured, why do they keep on doing the same experiment? I can't
understand why this continues to happen.
The
United States Chemical Safety Board and other agencies are helping to
make people aware of this by sharing videos that show the horrible
consequences of this experiment going wrong. But I think they would
do better either forbidding it or providing the highest safety
measures.
Better
prevent than regret.
Link
to the original article:
United
States Chemical Safety Board's video:
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