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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2002  > September  >
Chemical Education Today
Letters
Another Hazard
Jean B. Umland
New York, NY 10280-1063
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September 2002
Vol. 79 No. 9
p. 1070
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The most serious hazard is missing from the list on page 95 of the article Soap from Nutmeg: An Integrated Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment (1). On standing in a partly-filled container, undergoing distillation or evaporation, diethyl ether can develop explosive peroxides. Years ago when I was distilling ether from a few milliliters of solution in a micro apparatus, an explosion occurred that blew pieces of ringstand a number of feet. I escaped serious injury only because I happened to have gone to my desk on the other side of the lab to write something in my notebook. The ether solution had given a negative test for peroxides before distillation was started.

Literature Cited

  1. de Mattos, M. C. S.; Nicodem, D. E. J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 94–95.

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 Umland, Jean B. J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 1070.
*  Keywords
 Laboratory Equipment / Apparatus; Organic Chemistry; Safety / Hazardous Materials
*  History
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Last Updated:		 August 12, 2002
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