From Students' Questions of Safety Education in a Chemistry Laboratory

Abstract

Chemists operate fairly scary chemicals with their bare hands, but drug injuries and addiction is very rare. This is because we are familiar with what is dangerous and what is not dangerous, and for that reason, the experimental curriculum is designed with the idea of gaining sufficient experience of failure in the undergraduate years in the chemistry classroom of the university. From the experience of safety education in the author's laboratory, this article will describe some points that are easy to overlook (metal powder), fire extinguishers, and the opinions are divided (cyanide). Beside general viewpoints of chemical aspects fire safety and chemistry experiments similar to that I have written for high-school and college students and teachers, this Editorial focused on “Question” that my (under) graduate students have practically.