MIT Student Claims To Make One Of The World’s Deadliest Chemicals, Sparking HAZMAT Response

MIT Student Claims To Make One Of The World’s Deadliest Chemicals, Sparking HAZMAT Response A potentially dangerous laboratory incident at MIT triggered a hazmat response last week after a graduate student told medical personnel he believed he had created dimethylmercury, a highly toxic mercury compound, according to the NY Post. The student, who has not been publicly identified, went to a local emergency room and reported the possible synthesis. That claim was serious enough to prompt MIT to close Building 18, part of its chemistry complex, while emergency crews and university...