>Preliminary investigations indicate it was the bursting of a pipette when they were doing a practical in a chemistry laboratory
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> >The teacher in charge of the practice said that the incident occurred due to a possible release of gas at the time they were going to close the experiment.
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Thanks for this. When I read the note that Sammye forwarded I assumer that gas = natural gas, but I now suspect that I need to think more broadly about the source of the glassware.

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
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