Chemistry
Chemistry
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All chemists from 1925 are dead.
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Correlation, not causation
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As someone who worked in nuclear power you should definitely NOT pipette by mouth.
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Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn't even use gloves and lived to 102.
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I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.
This was, altogether, a remarkable experience - both in its sudden onset and its extraordinary course. It seemed to have resulted from some external toxic influence; I surmised a connection with the substance I had been working with at the time, lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate. But this led to another question: how had I managed to absorb this material? Because of the known toxicity of ergot substances, I always maintained meticulously neat work habits. Possibly a bit of the LSD solution had contacted my fingertips during crystallization, and a trace of the substance was absorbed through the skin. If LSD-25 had indeed been the cause of this bizarre experience, then it must be a substance of extraordinary potency. There seemed to be only one way of getting to the bottom of this. I decided on a self-experiment.
Exercising extreme caution, I began the planned series of experiments with the smallest quantity that could be expected to produce some effect, considering the activity of the ergot alkaloids known at the time: namely, 0.25 mg (mg = milligram = one thousandth of a gram) of lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate.
From LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann. I will leave it to others to explain all the ways in which this is absolutely hair-raising.
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at least he went about it scientifically rather than going "yo bruh try somma this shit, it's fire trust me"
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I've gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second
underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn't be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(
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I'm all fairness, nobody should be using fuming nitric acid unless absolutely necessary.
At least you didn't catch on fire. It likes to do that too.
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My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had "no mouth pipetting" signs up in the late 90s.
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"Hmm, new compound, eh? Let's taste it."
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/4593645
chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.
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We call it three stooges syndrome
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Curie, Death,
Be "alpha" in the grave 😎😎 supaaa
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Nah the alpha is fine, it’s the beta and gamma radiation that got her
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You got me,
Except if this going inside the corps 😅🤗
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"heats up lunch with a Bunsen burner"
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I tried scrambling an egg using the vortexer (it didn't work)
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Little Johnny has gone to H
He'll be with us no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4 -
Do they still sell the Pipetting silly straws somewhere? I was in a Bio lab last week and they didn't have any (but still told everyone to NOT pipette the E.Coli with their mouths) so I really want to try that now
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Still better than first phosphorus discovery
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I'll never get the vague vinegar stains out of my hand
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Vague Vinegar is 100% something you'd make in slime rancher
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Don't look in my lab please.
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Dunno about now, but I had to pipette stuff in BTech. That's less than 10 years ago.
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Chemists from 1925 in 1960.... I don't remember always having this much cancer... Or reduced lung function.