The Exceptional Entity

Betrayal. A thing that you probably expect to happen to you, but you don't know what scale it will be on and when it happens- then it hits you, a shower of affliction.

Samuel Jenkins was an unemployed student at the age of 21. He and his flatmate Tom had been as thick as thieves since primary school. They both happened to be studing Chemistry in London. Samuel was in his second year: Tom was about to finish his third.

"What?" I hear you say. "What came between such a friendship, and who would betray their lifelong friend?"

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"Slowly add the sodium to the w-"
The mixture promptly disintergrated, plumes of smoke rising from the smouldering substance. Samuel grinned as he turned the fume cupboard on and put the sodium and water in the sink. Tom eas furiously taking notes of what he had observed.

"There's one more experiment to try- we have to add biuret A to sulphurinc acid and heat it. Then add zince oxide and stir meticulously. Then we heat it again. Got it?"
"Yep," a voice replied from underneath the table.

They assembled everything accordingly. After add biuret A to sulphuric acid and heating this mixture, the companions noticed that the mixture had turned heliotrope. Every so often it would give out a spray of bright orange gas which diffused quickly into the air.

"I'll be back in a moment, I've got to get some more paper," Tom said as he rushed through the door. Samuel leaned ove rhte table to get a beaker, but as he did so he knocked over the mixture onto his labcoat. His first instinct was to take this off, as it seemed to be forming a blue circle as well as corroding the fabric. After he did this he realised that where the mixture had stained his labcoat, there was no longer any sign that anything had ben spilt.