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In addition sharing this with your local science educators, fire service agencies may be interested in this as well.
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Educators cautioned about classroom demonstrations involving fire
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2018 â?? The risks of classroom demonstrations that involve lighting solvents on fire are outlined in an article in the American Chemical Societyâ??s Journal of Chemical Education. Over the past 20 years, 164 children and educators have been reported as injured by flash fires, flame jets and projectiles after the presenter lost control of the experiment. The most problematic of these has been the â??rainbow demonstration.â??
The article, â??Playing with Fire: Chemical Safety Expertise Required,â?? discusses why such experiments continue to be performed and encourages safer practices. Free access is available for a limited time here: https://pubs.acs.org/stoken/campaign/playwithfire/full/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00152.
The series â??Guidelines for Chemical Laboratory Safetyâ?? and other resources about chemical and laboratory safety are available at https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/chemical-safety.html.
The American Chemical Society, the worldâ??s largest scientific society, is a not-for-profit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. ACS does not conduct research, but publishes and publicizes peer-reviewed scientific studies. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
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