So yesterday was a pretty intense like storm. Daniel and I decided to go out and grab fast food since we didn't have time to cook a meal. We got a beautiful lightning show over the mountains!
While we were driving home we saw a blue bolt of lightning hit Y mountain. We both thought it was cool. Our night got even cooler when we were almost home we saw little flames on the mountain where the bolt had hit. We watched it for about an hour until it died out. We wanted to make sure it wasn't going to turn into a wildfire since it was right above our house. I am very thankful that we don't have to evacuate! But how ironic would that have been if we did have to evacuate?! Ironic because we are moving out of said apartment this coming Saturday. :)
Today in lab I was cleaning the diatoms (little microscopic silica creatures) and after I added the nitric acid I put it on the hot plate. Now I had been warned before that they were going to boil and react over......I watched, but I didn't take the warnings as seriously as I should have. Needless to say I had four beakers that exploded and reacted over the top-- getting all over the fume hood and a little bit on me!
I tried containing the reaction as best as I could. When all was over I had a few burns on my hands and one big one on my toe. Luckily I was wearing goggles and an apron. I looked down at the apron afterwards and it was covered in splotches. Well.....I guess next time I will follow the instructions when it says: goggle, apron, gloves, and close toed shoes worn at all times, no exception!!!
In my defense, I didn't have time to pull my gloves back on. It would have been much worse if it had reacted over onto the hot plate. Also.....my shoes were nearly all closed......I just don't own closed shoes without holes in them at the moment. haha
It was also fun cleaning up the acid spill. I got to drench everything in baking soda to neutralize the reaction. yay!
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