• Question: what is the most dangerous chemical you work with?

    Asked by ???? to Kelly on 8 Mar 2016.
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      Kelly Houton answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Hi MLGswag420,

      unfortunately I don’t work with chemicals at the minute, but during my PhD, I used a reducing agent called lithium aluminium hydride.

      It is so sensitive to water that it reacts with water in the atmosphere- so to weight it out on a balance you needed to constantly flow nitrogen over it to stop it from spontaneously combusting!

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