That Methyl Methacrylate Tank (opens in new tab)

I wasn’t posting over the long weekend, so I missed the saga of the Garden Grove methyl methacrylate tank. The immediate danger seems to abated, fortunately, but let’s talk about it to illustrate some widely applicable chemistry. People wrote to me to ask if methyl methacrylate itself is on my “Things I Won’t Work With” list, but it’s a long way from being in that category, to be honest. I’ve worked with it, as well as related compounds like methyl acrylate, acrylic acid, acrolein, acrylonitr...