Need help with picking a reagent for a chemisty project.?

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I have a project for my Chemisty class where we must choose a reagent and design a poster that would display most of the MSDS data... 

(Ex. Name, common names, physical description, WHMIS symbols, safety percaustions, symptoms of exposer, storage, waste disposal, etc.) 

But I want to choose a reagent no one would think of. Something used in fireworks, or drugs, or something teens would be surprised they came across everyday. I want my presentation to get people thinking about all the chemicals we come across without even knowing it... Any ideas??

Chloro · Accepted Answer

i always thought the dihydrogen monoxide hoax was pretty funny/interesting. it's kind of a way to gauge the public's scientific literacy and how fear and paranoia can be propagated through people lacking a general background in science.

read up on it on wiki first so you know what it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax

but then check out their website to see how the facts can be extremely distorted to fool the masses:
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

im sure you'll get some people.... depending on the level of the audience. 

if that doesn't float your boat, there are some pretty cool organic reagents that do some crazy stuff. gilman reagent, grignard reagent, wittig reagent, edman degredation, tebbe's reagent, and organolithium reagent just to name a few i remember off the top of my head from organic chemistry

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