Bromine.....
I used to work for a company specialising in analytical chemistry. To pass the time we dreamed up all kinds of ways to abuse various dangerous chemicals. A good one was to put dead flies on a hot plate and pour perchloric acid over them. If you don’t know, perchloric acid will ignite and explode on contact with hot organic material. This would cause the fly to liquefy then explode like a fire work, very pretty.
However, one of the more stupid games we used to play was "catch the bromine". This was fun until I dropped a full litre bottle causing the whole company to be evacuated and the lab in question remained out of service for a few days while the mess and poisonous fumes where cleaned up.

Don’t tell the boss I was playing catch, I told him my gloves were wet and it slipped from my hand. Honest
(tedalaki - Like Purple Aki but better, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 16:28, 1 reply)

Hahahahhaha
you silly bastard [clicks] :D
(Christopsy, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 12:27, closed)