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I can talk to most of the techs from the public high/middle schools about getting together. However i dont know how to get into contact with the techs from the private schools. Would you be able to track them down and send them my email address. Oh and i dont have your email address either. I know t...

I dont know if there are any NT Lab Tech who use this web site. But i would like to invite any who do to Friday Avo drinks. Darwin Middle School Friday 14th March 3:00pm Food will be supplied and drinks will be available from the Darwin Middle School Social Club RSVP: samantha.grinceri@ntschools.net...

Just be careful. I just did this and it kind of exploded on me. Too much NaOH and Al foil the reaction was rather large. If i had a really big balloon it would have been oK. But we had a normal size balloon that didnt go onto the conical flask properly. I did it again after, with less Al and NaOH an...

Thanks, this helps me with my science week experiments as well.

The problem with Steve Spangler is that he does not write in the chemical and preportions that he uses. Probley a liability thing, but it makes his site very interesting but not very practical.

I am up in Darwin so i think that i will be able to get away with it as well.

Thanks for your help, I had a look on the web and i found an explosive watermelon and pumpkin prac as well.

I will check in and tell you how all of it went.

Sam

what would you put into the watermellon to make it explode like Steve got them to???

How do you get the balloons that full of H2? Any of the things i know how to do ends up with not enough of a reaction to fill the balloon?

What happens with the Glycerin and KMnO4?

i thought a little brass'o would do the trick. We dont use the Van De Graph machine up here in Darwin that much. Doesnt like the humidity.

I dont know a little grease under the nails, the smell of WD40 and a really good plumbers crack if that doesnt get every girl hot under the collor i dont know what will.

If i had to wait for the maintance officer to do it. All of them will be stuck by the time he gets around to it. I was going to get the gas guy in to do it. But the gentle persuasion from a rubber mallet and WD40 sounds like the logical course of action. However i think that i will get the gas guy i...

Thanks, (nice to know that i am not the only one who thinks for the students as the "little dears" :cheesy: ) I will of course have to try out each of these several time before hand just to see if they work. :whistling2: We do the air pressure rocket with one of our units, so most of them ...

Science Week is coming up. =D> I would love to do some very cool 8) demos during the lunch breaks. I have some ideas; Diet Coke and Mentos Dry Ice Experiments Bang Test (similar to the pop test but a bit bigger) Vinegar and Bi Carb Volcanos But i was hoping that you all would have some more ideas. P...

Thanks

I have a list of the chemicals we have and classification of the Dot thing however there are holes in the file. If anyone can me fill in these holes i would really appresiate it.

Message me and i can get the file to you. I dont know if this site will let me attach a file to the forum.

Sam

On this topic does anyone know where the best eg cheapest place to get a small (30l) corrisive cabinet would be? The one that i have is corroding from the inside and is a down right danger to everyone. But Government schools being what they are funds are an issue. Also do these cabinet need to conne...

Cant you buy Red and Blue Litmus Paper. I must admit that most of my papers have turned red in the chem store.

Does the teacher want Red and Blue Litmus Solution or Paper?

or am i asking a very stupid question?

One of my teacher asked me to filter it. I have a "Shaker bottle" as well.

The problem is not us labling things it is the guys 20 years ago that needed to learn how to lable things. Oh and throw things out too. I got into this lab 12 months ago and we had about 20 - 40 unlabled chemical solution. From Potassium Permanganate to clear/colourless unknowables. Luckly it was al...

I know that we need to use disposal companies when disposing of large amounts of chemical. However for small amounts of different chemicals i dont know what can and can not go down the sink (with LOTS of water following). I need a list or a national or state/territory standard were these things are ...

Thanks to Nick for the tour.

Tassy was great fun, but i think next time i will leave myself some time after the flight to sleep before i go back to work.

From Sam