Meanwhile, a bunch of my classmates junior year of high school took a tour of my future alma mater and came back with stories about how the thermite demo went wrong and exploded.
Later I saw black and white video of the same classroom, the thermite set the projector screen on fire ( which for some dumb reason was down at the time), the instructor panicked and pulled the screen causing it to retracted.
This did not put out the fire.
Unfortunately the video cuts out there. The building did not burn down, apparently, but I would have liked to have seen the full saga.
I almost skipped chemistry class the day they did the thermite demo for us. Instead I sat way in the back.
A teacher at my highschool did the thermite demo over a large ceramic dish, it shattered the liquid iron blob burned through the floor into the classroom below
Later I saw black and white video of the same classroom, the thermite set the projector screen on fire ( which for some dumb reason was down at the time), the instructor panicked and pulled the screen causing it to retracted.
This did not put out the fire.
Unfortunately the video cuts out there. The building did not burn down, apparently, but I would have liked to have seen the full saga.
I almost skipped chemistry class the day they did the thermite demo for us. Instead I sat way in the back.