Quote Originally Posted by NortonDommi View Post
So some useful stuff is taught in university then?
Yep, we have an explosives lab on campus, with some interesting vent arrangements should something go bang, though historically most such labs have been damaged by simple arithmetic errors leading to larger and/or more unstable mixtures going bang. Our lab is currently in use as an office as the chemist who it was built for was forced to resign having offended the head of the art department in the Universities Health and Safety committee meeting he was chairing, following yet another preventable INCIDENT (not an accident) involving lifting equipment and the departments poor management. I also know some of the team who work at Porton Down's EX-PADs where new explosives and related work are tested.