Reply to post: Re: Hydrogen

Comms room, comms room, comms room is on fire – we don't need no water, let the engineer burn

MJB7

Re: Hydrogen

Reminds me of a tour I was given of the about-to-be-opened Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge. One of the issues was the safety of the lab for the group which researched semi-conductor materials. Some of the processing chemicals can be ... interesting.

"Never mind" says the architect "we've got a checklist for that. Now then: which processing chemicals do you use?"

Academics: "All of them. And we are in the business of inventing new ones."

Architect: "Ah. That isn't an option on our checklist."

In the end, the lab was put on the top floor with a light roof, so that any explosions could just blow the roof off.

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