Yes Kemlo and all, 
that happened here in "humid" Georgia where you may think it not possible
for the chemical to dry out.  The Bomb squad made a crater large enough in
which to park 2 buses at the police rifle range detonating a small bottle of
the stuff.  I personally would STOP trying to make it explode.  :)

-----Original Message-----
From: histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Carole
Fields
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:21 AM
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: FW: [Histonet] Re: Bouins alternative/substitute question



-----Original Message-----
From: Carole Fields
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:44 AM
To: 'Kemlo Rogerson'
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: Bouins alternative/substitute question


Two institutions I know of (friends working there)..... called the bomb
squad to pick it up and they exploded it...they said it would take out a
city block.
That is what they were told......I would not try and explode it.  I had it
hauled from a lab where I worked in Calif.  And they were careful to have
someone dispose of it also.
Carole Fields, HT,ASCP
Pathology Supervisor
Lexington Medical Center
2720 Sunset Blvd.
W. Columbia, SC 29169


-----Original Message-----
From: Kemlo Rogerson [mailto:kemlo.rogerson@waht.swest.nhs.uk]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:27 AM
To: 'Johnson, Teri'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: Bouins alternative/substitute question


I think it is because picric acid explodes when dry but I've tried, and
tried, and tried and it has never exploded.

Has anyone ever succeeded? 

Kemlo Rogerson
Pathology Manager
Ext  3311
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Mob 07749 754194
 
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