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My insane science teacher 1/1
!tedl177Zx2 01/29/12(Sun)19:44 No.33767696
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>Magnesium and the theoretical dead truck driver
My science teacher, Mr. B, had dyslexia, or another form of handicap in reading. He did not learn how to read until later than most people, but once he did, he could not stop. He just read and read, craving input like an 80s movie about robots.
The result was that he graduated highschool early, then he graduated college as well. When he became a highschool teacher, he was the same age as most of the students, with all the same curiosities and ability to be influenced by peers. In teaching about the how magnesium reacts with water (IE kaboom!), one of the students asked the obvious question. “Can we try it out?”
“. . . okay!”
So the class was taken down to this basement where they kept all the science supplies. This was an old school, though, and the supplies had been sitting on the shelf a long time. First, Mr. B got a tin of water and a cube of magnesium. The magnesium had sat so long that impurities collected around all the edges, which no one realized. Playing it safe and responsible, Mr. B cut off a small bit of magnesium and tossed it in the tin.
Nothing.
So, he cut another piece. Unsurprisingly, nothing happened. This kept going. Cut, splash, nothing. The craving for explosions died down among the class and they all just started muttering and complaining. Mr. B even became exasperated. After sighing with resignation, and muttering something about “what a let down” he tossed the entire block into the water.
He did not realize that at this point, he had cut away all the impurities and tossed a whole block of pure magnesium into water.
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