Talk:Thioacetamide

Why Princeton University adopted thioacetamide

Prior to 1952 or so, Princeton undergraduates used hydrogen sulfide gas, perhaps bubbled into solution, to form metal sulfides for analysis. One day (evening?), when a student was working alone, he apparently took a wrench to the gas cylinder and removed a fitting (possibly a hex-head pipe plug?) that should absolutely never be removed if the cylinder was under pressure. Trying to correct his mistake, he apparently attempted to replace the fitting, instead of leaving the room promptly. He inhaled a fatal dose of H₂S.

heat of formation

delta H= -71.7 kJ/mol

CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics 2005 section 5 page 31 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.55.5.167 (talk) 08:18, 6 December 2012 (UTC)