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Chemistry Class Chemicals Are Not Pop Rocks

2010_10_ptodi.jpg Kids are so gullible! In an incident at Brooklyn's Seth Low IS 96, the Post reports that "two students took a bottle of potassium [dichromate] from a science class and sprinkled some of the powder into the hands of other kids"—and the principal says "at least two of [the victims] then licked their hands." An official explained that potassium dichromate—"an oxidizing agent and in pyrotechnics, explosives and matches"—resembles Pop Rocks, while another said some students thought it was just glitter. The hazmat team responded; while the victims were not seriously injured, the pranksters were taken away in handcuffs.

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  • bleeckerite

    Youths' attempt to carry out social Darwinism.

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