• @[email protected]
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    8318 days ago

    Johnny was a chemists son. But Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H20, Was H2S04.

    • clif
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      1518 days ago

      The one I remember from school was phrased slightly differently (but same concept) :

      Poor little Jimmy is lying on the floor, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

    • Rolivers
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      617 days ago

      Two chemists enter a bar. One orders a glass of H2O. The other chemist says I’ll have a glass of H2O too. He bleached his throat and died.

  • Lemminary
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    8218 days ago

    Are you even sciencing if you don’t drink some piss you found in a beaker somewhere?

    • @[email protected]
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      3118 days ago

      Sadly the Erlenmeyer flask was previously used for some nasty water soluble compounds and just looks clean.

      • @[email protected]
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        2118 days ago

        rinse -> acetic acid -> rinse -> Acqua regia-> Rinse -> Pirahna solution -> Rinse -> 500°C oven -> Rinse

        I would then drink from it without even worrying

        • @[email protected]
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          1018 days ago

          Is NileRed then too cautious when he only uses fresh breakers for stuff he is going to eat?

            • @[email protected]
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              318 days ago

              That could be argued, but where does it stop? New stir bars? New thermometer probe every time?

          • @[email protected]
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            918 days ago

            he’s lucky to have a big enough channel to be able to afford 40000$ NMR machines, so a couple beakers aren’t that much of an expense for much more safety

            but as a home chemist, there is NO WAY I’m getting new beakers every time I wanna do edible chem, especially pyrex branded ones like Nile does. Lab equipment, even basic glassware, is ridiculously overpriced

    • @[email protected]
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      117 days ago

      lab grade ethanol

      That’s usually methylated spirit. It probably won’t kill you, but you’ll lose your vision.

      • @[email protected]
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        417 days ago

        methylated spirits are the ones used for cleaning, lab grade ethanol needs to be just ethanol or some reactions might fail, however in some badly managed labs you might find mislabeled stuff and have contaminants

        still, you shouldn’t drink it anyways, as some producers use the highly carcinogenic benzene to make pure 100% ethanol, as distillation with water can only get you up to the 95,6% azeotrope, and some benzene might make it’s way in the product

  • Ellia Plissken
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    3018 days ago

    I remember reading about a chemistry teacher found dead one morning. he had a habit of consuming the laboratory’s ethanol after hours, and the night before had accidentally poured himself a glass of methanol

      • @[email protected]
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        1218 days ago

        I themed the wet bar in my basement as a laboratory. There’s a drying rack on the wall that I use to store 15 mL beakers that I use a shot glasses. It’s fun. I’ve also found that a hot plate stirer with a thermometer probe and a vacuum filtration setup makes the best clarified butter easy as a snap!

      • ...m...
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        618 days ago

        …my wife’s a mad scientist: well, she’s a senior scientist and she’s mad pretty often…

    • @[email protected]
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      1018 days ago

      Have we communally decided where the proper line should be drawn between lifestyle acceptance, and calling out stereotypes in media? I get what you’re insinuating, but some women do actually seem to enjoy wearing earrings. You could just as notably call out the fact that she has long hair.