Explosive Victorian Gas Fittings

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Explosive copper acetylide used to accidentally form in copper coal-gas pipes, because of trace amounts of acetylene in the gas -

The American Exchange and Review, Volume 21, 1872

Chemical News, Jan 3, 1863

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ANARCHIC EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE

"Hodges emitted a scream the like of which

I hadn't heard since his scrotum was burned off

during my experiment with fluorine gas last year."

The Exotic Experimentation of Ernest Glitch,

Victorian Science with a Smile

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