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Originally Posted by Kybosh
It is not uncommon to have the syringe needle tip catch on fire while handling t-butyl lithium. Recently, at UCLA a grad student was handling a large amount of t-BuLi (~50 mL of solution). My understanding was that she was working alone over Christmas (mistake #1) and while pulling back the plunger on the t-BuLi it popped off and sprayed all over her. It lit on fire and she ended up dying from the burns she sustained a few weeks after the accident. I've used t-BuLi a lot before but you need to handle it properly and with respect (like a lot of chemicals).
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Ah... yes. That's the story my prof was telling us about! Crazy stuff man!!