bunsen burner omg lol

[Soka]

ye because our chemistry teacher said it happened before because someone turned all the gas taps on all around the room and left it so if someone would have lit a match or something anywhere in the room it would of gone bang

but not blow the school up

[:Hazel]

people are probs afraid of being sued, thats why alot of schools don't use them now.

[Soka]

people are probs afraid of being sued, thats why alot of schools don't use them now.

my school is a science status so it wud be stupid not to have bunsens

[stratosphere]

Isn't it Propane gas in the taps?

[Sammeth.]

It wouldnt go back in to the pipes, as the gas is blowing out. Its just the same as lighting a bunsen burner. You may aswell say that the flames would go "back into the burner, down the pipe and into the tap" It wouldnt happen, so why would it if its just a tap?

Well anyway, a similar thing happened in my school. The person knocked out their burner, and it fell over, still lit as there was gas left in the burner, and fell onto the gas tap. Just had a flame thrower effect, and my teacher pressed the emergency stop button.

[Jõnathan]

Someone licked a gas tap at our school

[cocaine]

our school still has bunsen burner gas taps in all the sciene classrooms.

[Carlos]

they had bunsens at my old school.

[Liam!]

some aren't allowed to even use them? srsly.. how do you do experiments.

a few of them in my classes don't work cos people shove things up it.

[Charlie]

We just used the wooden stickie thigns that you used to light them, broke them into pieces and make like a mini bonfire on the desk with 'em.

Oh, and then you'd have some kids thinking they were cool because they were smoking paper.