fandomhigh | Chemistry; Tuesday, Period One [ 01/11 ].

"Good job on survivin' yer first week of classes, kids," Kūkaku smirked at the assembled class in front of her. "I'm sure some of you have been workin' on your projects for this week, while the rest of you either slacked off or picked somethin' easy, so let's get those out of the way, and then move onto the lecture. There's safety goggles on yer desks; put 'em on so John Watson doesn't yell at me, and we'll get started. Stark, since you were so convinced yours couldn't be done, let's start with you."

It was always good to start the day with blowing things up.

But all good things eventually came to an end. "Now that the fun's over, we'll take five to clean up, and then get into the lecture. Atoms today. The very basis of what you just blew up. Starsmore, while everyone's gettin' ready, help the twins pass out the model kits. Careful not to melt the plastic."

"So, the atom." Kūkaku turned to the board and started to write. "Can't have matter without it, so that makes it pretty freakin' important. One dense, central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. Kinda like one dense high school student surrounded by a cloud of hormonally charged issues. Unless you're hydrogen-1, which is the only stable nucleoli without neutrons. All these electrons are bound to the nucleus by electromagnetic force, they're so small you can't even see 'em, blah blah blah, you should have all read about this in your textbooks.

"And when you put atoms together, you get molecules, the freakin' building blocks of life. If all the protons and electrons are equal, it's neutral; otherwise it's got a positive or negative charge and ya call it an ion. I, then, could consider myself like a negative charge ion, all things considered. If you honestly get what I mean by that and thought it was even remotely amusing, congratulations, you're a nerd.

"So where the hell did they get the word atom? It's Greek, meaning uncuttable, indivisible, cannot be divided any further. Well, I guess they shot themselves in the foot for that one, because you actually can split an atom and it's called nuclear fission, and it produces energy. This is nuclear transmutation, since you're essentially changin' the original element.

"Unfortunately, the products of nuclear fission are extremely radioactive, so we can't actually split an atom in class." Kūkaku really couldn't sound more disappointed that she already was. She sighed, shaking her head.

"So, instead!" Kūkaku whipped around from the blackboard with the gratuitous swinging of her cans. "All you guys get to do for a project today is build stupid models."

Hey, if she couldn't be happy, none of them could.

"Ya all got the atom building game at your desks, so find a partner, and build some damn atoms. You work with the periodic table to figure out how many electrons, neutrons, and protons you need and compete against the other person to make them. Or something. I don't know; you guys have eyes, you can read the instructions yourself. Or just make shit up. It doesn't really matter.

"If ya do want to make it a little exciting, though, and make certain combinations of atom models explode, this is a Shiba class, so it's mostly recommended. Any questions? If not, get to work. And don't forget to read the chapters for next week, too."

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It was your task to find a compound that would make the element you chose last week go boom and explode. There are safety goggles, too. Wear them, or don't. Kūkaku doesn't care so long as no one needs to go to the clinic.

"Sulfur and carbon, mix with oxygen, are the basics of fireworks," Scully said, holding up tiny quantities of same. "Sulfur and charcoal, in this case, with saltpeter. Oh, and some bits of iron for color."

The bang! was louder than the size of the bright light, but the smoke still lingered for a bit.

Scully was looking fairly perky after this.

Kūkaku could never have anything against fireworks. Well, she'd much prefer larger fireworks, but they were in a classroom.

"I like where ya went with that, Scully," she complimented with a smirk. "Now, tell me, you pick that because you know that's what I do, or is it mere coincidence?"

Scully blinked, and said honestly, "Coincidence. Also, my other option involved a microwave, and I wasn't sure I wouldn't completely wreck it if I got the proportions wrong."

"Why wouldn't you want to completely wreck it?" Kūkaku had to ask.

Scully blinked, then weakly said, "Shrapnel?" Since clearly the destruction of school property would barely register, apparently.

"Ain't that what the safety goggles are for?" Kūkaku asked.

Cassidy was very careful as she talked about Iridium and how in it's powdered form it had been known to ignite in air.

Yes, it ignited and made an impressive bit of smoke and light.

Thankfully the shield she had put up around her work station had kept the mini-explosion contained.

Cassidy was looking very fascinated by the bit of explosion.

Kūkaku couldn't help smirking slightly. "Nice work; you blow things up often?"

Cassidy smiled and shook her head. "No, but it seemed like a good idea to shield the work area after I studied for this presentation. I didn't think that blowing up part of the classroom would get me a good grade in class."

And not get her kicked out of school.

"Well, that would depend on how much style ya did it with," Kūkaku said with a smirk.

Especially since it would likely get her kicked out of school, as well. Still, if it was done well, she couldn't think of a better way to go.

But she did tap her forehead a little. "Good thinking, though. Smart. Keep using that up there and you're gonna do pretty well in here, Cassidy."

And prevent Kūkaku from getting yelled at by Watson, probably. So guess who just earned herself some points from Kūkaku.

"Antimony by itself," William said, utilizing a fume hood to do his presentation, since it wouldn't do to expose the classroom to toxic smoke, "is not generally explosive. However, there exists a very rare form of antimony trichloride, which, when heated..." he flicked a switch, raising the temperature inside the hood until-

there was a bang! and some white smoke filled the interior of the device.

"That," he finished neatly.

"Yeah," Kūkaku smirked despite this coming from the Plant. "That. No one take too big of a breath right away. Nice work, Murdoch."

Tony, being the over-intelligent guy he was, ended up making a very small bomb. With robotic limbs. All in all, it managed to look like a spider.

"It's powered by Palladium, so we're just blowing that up."

With science, Tony. With science.

Kūkaku just arched her eyebrow for a moment as she eyed the spider palladium robot, and then shook her head.

"Stark," she said, "you are a nerd."

It almost sounded like a good thing, though.

It was practice for the future Spider-Man!

"I didn't have too much time to work on it," he replied with a frown.

//I took the easy way out,// Jono admitted, as he (very, very carefully) filled a balloon with hydrogen gas and tied it to the back of a chair. //Hydrogen is fairly volatile just so long as there's anywhere from four to seventy-four percent volume concentration of it in the air, so...//

No, he wasn't going to use his powers for this. He did manage to scrounge up a rod, which produced fire at one end, and so, when it touched the balloon...

Fwoomp.

It could have been more flashy, certainly, but he was trying to go for a new track record involving days not lighting people on fire.

//I could have used chlorine, as well. But most people in th'room do seem to appreciate breathing.//

"Now why would they wanna do that?" asked Kūkaku with a snort. "You couldn't have even filled the balloon with glitter or anythin' before you blew it up, Starsmore?"

//I could keep that in mind for next time, I suppose,// mused Jonothon, as he started to go about picking up some of the slightly less molten gobs of balloon that were strewn about. //There's a bit of a rumour about among th'students that glitter causes blokes to start kissing one another, though. And I'm really not that sort of chap.//

No. Really.

That earned Jono a pause a look that suggested that he had to be making things up.

"Confetti, then," Kūkaku murmured, shaking her head. "Point is, ya can always do something to pizazz it up without blowin' off limbs. I should know that by now. And, seriously? You kids are weird."

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