Train Derails

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 21, 2003 6:23 pm

Ontario Provincial Police have cleared an area outside of Orillia, Ontario, after a CN train derailed spilling its cargo of sulphuric acid.

The OPP says the CN train was crossing a highway north of Gambridge in the Orillia area shortly before noon, when about 35 train cars jumped the tracks.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 21, 2003 7:41 pm

How diluted was the acid? The ones in our laboratory are diluted to 5% Sulphuric adic and 95% water. (I have no idea why I remember that...

) That is some DANGEROUS stuff!

On a side note and off topic, I had no idea that some Canadians used "Kilometre" and "Sulphuric" instead of "Kilometer" and "Sulfuric." I will have to study Canadian English some more...

Is this a regional thing? Red mainly uses American English.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 21, 2003 7:52 pm

takahita_tsukino wrote: Red mainly uses American English.

Maybe I have been assimilated by the Americans. NOOOOOOOOooo

*repeats and spells over and over kilometre, kilometre, kilometre....*

Not sure how much it was diluded, but I seen it on the news and they said there was white smoke coming out!

We had some of that stuff for an experiment (seperating hydrogen and oxegen from water, using a small current) and I volenteered to put my hands in it.

The wires had to be put in this other jar thingy (don't know the english words for the chemistry stuff) so we can then empty the water/acid from it then we can remove it and put a stick it it and if it makes a "pop" it's hydrogen and if it just keeps burning it's oxygen.

I did it like 3 times too. I had to be fast enough so when I flip it, none of the water comes out. I was the expert at this. I immediatly washed my hands to dilute the acid (after rubbing my eyes because they started itching j/k)

but this must of been like 1% acid. It did not burn at all.

HCl acid burns a lot too, just the smell burns the inside of the nose! Sniffing it can probably make you choke.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 21, 2003 8:06 pm

Red, we did that exact experiment!

It was fun!

Perhaps in the future, people can use that method of seperation to get oxygen from water.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 21, 2003 9:16 pm

takahita_tsukino wrote: Perhaps in the future, people can use that method of seperation to get oxygen from water.

Yeah that's true.

I tried it at home too, but it does not work because I was using AC, so it would mix the hydrogen and oxygen in both jars, and I just had it open, all I wanted to see was the bubles. It was plain tap water with 120V line in it.

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