The time has finally come!! Today in class we took our eggs and made some bombs. One-by-one we took our eggs, filled them with Hydrogen Gas, and then lit the top using a lighter. Obviously, throughout the experiment, we wore goggles. Our tiny, yet loud, explosions were achieved by--as stated earlier--first filling our eggs with the same gas that lifted the Hindenburg in the air and kept it there. Honestly, within our eggs, we created a mini-Hindenburg explosion. Seeing it happen in real life though really brought into perspective what went down in that blimp. The fact that the explosion happened so quickly and almost without any warning is proof that things can go really wrong really fast. This supervised small-scale experiment was definitely interesting and tons of fun to participate in. Plus, it was really fun to see everyone's reactions when their egg finally blew up!
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