The phrase "accidental experiment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an experiment that occurs unintentionally or without prior planning.
Example: "The scientist stumbled upon an accidental experiment when a chemical reaction produced unexpected results."
Alternatives: "unintentional experiment" or "chance experiment".
The whole affair resembles an accidental experiment with real communism.
This campaign has sought to paint South Australia as an "accidental experiment" in the dangers of too much renewable energy.
An accidental experiment on a human occurred in 1965 at what is now Johnson Space Center when a spacesuit leaked in a vacuum chamber.
The other interesting and accidental experiment I conducted while writing the Polara ball article was asking people if they would use it.
"Engineers can take it as an accidental experiment, or a 'found experiment,' " said Dr. Henry Petroski, a professor of civil engineering at Duke University and the author of "Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering" (Cambridge, 1994).
Having rejected the option of simply staying in bed – which sufferers will know is always a temptation at such times – it struck me that this offered the chance of an accidental experiment in the impact of a viewer's mood on the reception of a play.
Unfortunately these "accidental experiments" often carry devastating consequences, but nevertheless provide a kind of consolation prize in the form of unique data to learn about the Earth with.
Children aged four-to-eight (N = 404) were asked to evaluate the goodness and deserved reward of attempted and accidental help (Experiment 1), and the badness and punishability of attempted and accidental harm (Experiment 2).
The story received national attention after two oceanographers in Seattle – James Ingraham of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration NOAAandand Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a scientist with a consulting firm that assessed the environmental risks and impacts of engineering projects (sewage outflows, oil rigs) – turned the trainer spill into an accidental oceanographic experiment.
The locus of an accidental sociological experiment, El Taco is a sci-fi readymade.
Bradfield, J. & Brand, T. Results of utilitarian and accidental breakage experiments on bone points.
