Posted: 6/29/2010 3:20:51 AM EDT
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So there was an EXPLOSION in a lab at MU...
They say that inside the room it looks as though a bomb went off.... No kidding, an EXPLOSION in a ROOM looks as though a BOMB went off in a ROOM.... Ya Think? JEEBUS!!!! |
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I think this happened in a research lab in Biochemistry department in Switzler hall. Yup. A 2000 lbs psi of Hydrogen tank exploded. The fire dept. ruled it was human error. Four people sent to hospital. One in serious condition.
I am glad my lab does not have hazardous material like this ..... |
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I think this happened in a research lab in Biochemistry department in Switzler hall. Yup. A 2000 lbs of Hydrogen tank exploded. The fire dept. ruled it was human error. Four people sent to hospital. One in serious condition. I am glad my lab does not have hazardous material like this ..... Good thing the tank didn't actually explode. Maybe it ruptured, but if the whole 2000 lbs of hydrogen had actually reacted with the appropriate amount of oxygen, there wouldn't be a building there. |
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The tank may be partially filled. But that's what I heard from the local radio on my way to work this morning.
True, if it had been a full tank, the building will be destroyed. UPDATE: I must have misheard the news on radio ... it was a 2000 psi tank. Not 2000 lbs tank. |
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I think this happened in a research lab in Biochemistry department in Switzler hall. Yup. A 2000 lbs of Hydrogen tank exploded. The fire dept. ruled it was human error. Four people sent to hospital. One in serious condition. I am glad my lab does not have hazardous material like this ..... Good thing the tank didn't actually explode. Maybe it ruptured, but if the whole 2000 lbs of hydrogen had actually reacted with the appropriate amount of oxygen, there wouldn't be a building there. I doubt there'd be a campus there if a ton of hydrogen gas exploded. 
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I think this happened in a research lab in Biochemistry department in Switzler hall. Yup. A 2000 lbs of Hydrogen tank exploded. The fire dept. ruled it was human error. Four people sent to hospital. One in serious condition. I am glad my lab does not have hazardous material like this ..... Good thing the tank didn't actually explode. Maybe it ruptured, but if the whole 2000 lbs of hydrogen had actually reacted with the appropriate amount of oxygen, there wouldn't be a building there. I doubt there'd be a campus there if a ton of hydrogen gas exploded.
Would have been bad for me, because I was driving by the Campus when this happened, heard a muffled boom, something akin to a 250lb'er going off 2 miles away, but didnt really notice anything. Definately got the spidey senses tingling though.. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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The tank may be partially filled. But that's what I heard from the local radio on my way to work this morning. True, if it had been a full tank, the building will be destroyed. UPDATE: I must have misheard the news on radio ... it was a 2000 psi tank. Not 2000 lbs tank. Ah, pretty much any compressed gas tank is 2000 psi. I bet one of two things happened: 1) they didn't have a tank properly chained down, it fell over and knocked the valve off, which suddenly released all the hydrogen like a balloon popping, but no fire. 2) less likely, they released some hydrogen gas into the room and it burned with air very quickly, making a small explosion. An actual explosion with hydrogen is less likely, because hydrogen tends to rise and diffuse very quickly. Unless the room was close to airtight and there were a lot of fans keeping everything mixed up, there would have been just a minor fire. (I work with hydrogen gas, and my advisor's other grad student, with whom I worked closely, wrote his dissertation on hydrogen leak safety). |
| But I saw this movie once, with Keanu Reeves and some hot chick, where they were working on a cold fusion generator and the machine was sabotaged to build up critical levels of hydrogen gas. The hydrogen bew up and levelled an area the size of a small town. So I know it can happen. |