From: "Koster, Sandra" <skoster**At_Symbol_Here**UWLAX.EDU>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [DCHAS-L] See the Chemical Reaction That Takes Place When Sulfuric Acid Is Poured on Household Sugar
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:18:55 -0600
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Demystify:
Of course anything that gives off SO2 should be done in a hood. Besides that I should report that a colleague who did this as a demo rinsed the residue and disposed of it in a wastebasket--which later caught the paper on fire. Surprise, surprise! Guess it wasn't rinsed enough.
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