[co_life]

Hi guys
How glad am I to intend the Organic chemistry class 
However, lab periods seem too long and it's been a bit since boredom overwhelmed us. (not even kidding  )
Considering that some of you have already had some labs and know the available material during these labs, I ask for some cool things we can do to wake us up. For example, you have the funny sound with the hydrogen-in-the-buret-and-match-explosion thing (know what i mean? when the buret is propulsed to the back), ... but my short list is running to an end?

Anyone can help?
And I KNOW that I'm not in the right forum category, but couldn't find any other appropriate section...i figured that organic chemistry was my best shot to get answers

[jereeve]

Not that I would condone any kind of safety risk, but there are a few things that are worth doing...

A coupla pellets of dry ice inside a tied-off glove makes for a great novelty balloon, and will pop whether you like it or not, you just wont know when.

If you close off the end of a 5ml syringe containing a pellet of dry ice with nescofilm (other brands are avaliable), you can pressurise the CO₂, allowing its liquid state. You can fire the stopper at will (it goes about 10 metres), with a fairly loud pop. Watch out though, the syringe gets cold.

[P]

Get a conical flask with some water in it (you can add a dye to colour it for extra effect).   Leave it by the sink or preferably somewhere the lab demonstrators will find it.  Drop a couple of pellets of dry ice into it and walk away.   Watch as the demonstrator start to panic when they spot it  -  they wont know what it is - they will just see a flask of some coloured liquid left un-labled with smoke and bubbles coming out of it and will freak out.   

[nj_bartel]

Leave a container of almond oil extract open when you're working with cyanopolymers 

(please please don't)

[azmanam]

Along the cyanide line, here's a fun lab procedure for making HCN.  Be sure to read Note #1.

http://orgsyn.org/orgsyn/prep.asp?prep=cv1p0314

[nj_bartel]

There's no way I'd intentionally make HCN without a respirator and an indicator tag.

[co_life]

Hey guys, thanks for replies.
Cant wait till we get some dry ice, the teacher's going to go nuts!!!
Hopefully, these will help me bear the lab periods!!
But I was just wondering if there is a site made especially for these kind of lab-stunts or something like that?

And thanks again dudes 

[Borek]

There are many sites for lab stunts. They are called hospitals. They have huge collections of fingers, eyes, ears, noses, hands and legs; no brains though