Attending Saturday morning make-up experiment with severe hangover and no sleep. Determine amount of Nitrogen in cow's blood.
Student is grateful.
Must be having bad dream. NaOH nothing has occurred. NaOH to flow gently down side of vertical tube into conc. Mixing starts out OK until heat of reaction causes water to boil, rapidly mixing conc. Resulting steam explosion blows dropping funnel off top of apparatus and blows contents of apparatus all over ceiling tiles in a fraction of second.