Grey also has written some beautiful books about elements and molecules. At least for the elements book there also is an impressive (and impressively big) iPad app.
@sashag
It appears that George Goble's videos are not archived on archive.org. They were pretty impressive, and there wasn't much left of the grill when he was done.
@sashag My dad's a chem prof, and he had several near misses I recall as a kid, one of which threatened to take out the 6th floor of the chem building.
I wish I'd remembered what he was doing - I actually think some MS student's experiment went out of control - but I remember being there to visit him at work and his other students quickly backing me away toward the stairs...
@grrrr_shark I was at the institute of organic chemistry, when a graduate student's experiment went wrong. It exploded in a fume hood, the shock wave was so strong it blew open the explosion flap on top of the fume hood and all the windows on this floor.
Luckily nobody was injured. So I could enjoy the spectacle of the firefighters running into the building in full protection suits with respirator masks, while Prof. Enders, the institute's head was strolling around the still smoking lab in a white dress shirt with rilled up sleeves 😂
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