Four children injured after another chemistry demonstration goes wrong in Spain

By Fernando Gomollón-Bel2023-07-17T13:30:00

A white powder burning in a bed of sand producing a long thin black curled coal-like substance

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An outreach experiment triggered a fire and a small explosion, sending four children to hospital

Less than a year after an explosion at an outreach event in Girona, Spain that injured 18, another accident in the same region has hurt four children after an experiment went wrong. A surprisingly simple experiment – the bicarbonate and vinegar volcano – exploded and burnt some students, who were attending a summer school in Brunyola, a small village south of Girona.