UnBooks:Adventures of Hannibal Frankenstein
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Chapter 1 Fear the Chemist[edit | edit source]
Dr Hannibal Frankenstein is a splendid chemist of fire. All his projects are about 'burning': he try every conventional and unconventional reactions on fire of different temperature in different gas. He was occupied with burning organic materials: leaves, grass, hair, shit, crap, dump, poop... but as he had just received funding for nucleus-chemical reactions, he started burning uranium and dihydrogen monoxide.
Like some other scientists, Frankenstein had lab animals, but he preferred rodents to cats. He had a squirrel collecting pinecones from the pines near the laboratory building and shared them with his assistant. Rumors went out that he was able to synthesis 90% psychoactive drug from burning leftover pine cones, but the authority had never found a single evidence for his candy loving rodents. Anyway, everyone considered them dangerous and sought to finish them off for good.
Dr Frankenstein was later court ordered to therapy for the fire experiment in his lab. He asked his assistant to bring him his lab coat , gloves and goggles at the morning of the first therapeutic appointment. Then he walked nonchalantly in them despite the stare of people around to a taxi...
Section 1 Chromic Acid[edit | edit source]
Frankenstein appeared at the door of the doc, lifting the goggles to his forehead with his gloved hands, and waved to the shrink: 'Morning doc, this is Dr Hannibal Frankenstein the greatest chemist on earth.' The shrink, nonplussed, pointed the chair before him with his hands without a single word. Frankenstein sit and took out a glass bottle of scarlet sticky liquid with precipitate from his lab coat. Before he remove the stopper the shrink pressed hard the bottom calling for help. The security got in only to find Frankenstein drinking his heavily sugared red soda.
Note: Chromic acid (red) is made by dissolving potassium dichromate in conc. sulfuric acid (sticky liquid).
Section 2 Hydrogen Sulfide[edit | edit source]
On the next section Frankenstein brought his egg burger to the consultant room complaining for having no time for breakfast. It took him the whole section to consume it so the shrink failed to understand a single word from his mouth. Several days later, the shrink called the security again suspecting his office gassed. This ruined half-a-day income. After searching for long hours the source of gas was found: a paper packed rotten fried egg.
Note: Hydrogen sulfate smells like rotten eggs.
Section 3 Hydrogen Cyanide[edit | edit source]
Dr Frankenstein looked depressed today. He sunk into the chair saying nothing and suddenly cried out: 'I can't stand it doc...I want to stop it once and for all!' He brought out another bottle, this time one with colorless liquid. The smell of bitter almond filled the air when the stopper removed. Seeing the bottle shaking and spinning the shrink felt his heart thumping weakly and sweating heavily, but noticed the laughter of Frankenstein when the episode of panic attack ebbed away. The liquid in the bottle started crystallizing: it was not hydrogen cyanide at all.
Note: Hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde smell the same, but the latter is far less toxic and easy to be oxidized (into crystallized benzoic acid).
Section 4 White Phosphorus[edit | edit source]
To the doc's surprise, Frankenstein brought nothing this time but a notebook. He put it on the desk, turned page after page and revealed at last some small white solid with garlic smell. 'WHAT IS IT??! YOU ARE SETTING FIRE HERE?' Shrieked the shrink. 'I love the smell.'Said Frankenstein , rubbing uthe solid carelessly till the security came again to find it only garlic.
Note:White phosphorus, highly toxic and pyrophobic, smells like garlic.
Section 5 Lithium Aluminium Hydride[edit | edit source]
Frankenstein apologised sincerely for the previous tricks and offered the doc a cup of coffee. When he left the shrink felt tired and thirsty that he could not resist the temptation of the coffee. He found a small bag of sugar beside and poured it into the coffee before noticing the label LiAlH4. The unfortunate psychiatrist was overwhelmed by a hallucination that a fireball devoured him...He was later found dead due to heart attack.
Note: Lithium Aluminium Hydride is highly flammable. It explodes when reacts with water.
The shrink is dead, long live the shrink.
Chapter 2 How do you shrink this wretch?[edit | edit source]
Several days later, two men with badges on their collars broke into Frankenstein's lab and told him the Big Brother from court on the attic has committed him to a psychiatric institution attached to the miniluv.
'We may as well say goodbye.' he said to his assistant.
Dr Frankenstein paused for seconds laughing before dragging in the asylum. The gate of the asylum ran that 'what makes you freak'. The two shut the heavy iron gate behind him and left him to the orderlies gloating maliciously but Dr Frankenstein just sit there imperviously with a manual of bullshit stained cover.