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They say you can get used to anything...

Apr 11, 2009 02:04

I noticed just now that my life has gotten a little bit odd. Friday, there was a (closed) jar of white fuming nitric acid in the reagents fume hood, left over from one of the other lab sections. And aside from noting it was there and that I should treat it with respect, it was no big deal. I'm now living in a world where concentrated strong acids ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

mr_silvers April 11 2009, 20:49:27 UTC

That blog is very entertaining.

403 April 12 2009, 07:49:32 UTC

It is indeed!

zeightyfiv April 12 2009, 07:09:07 UTC

Gee, now I feel left out. I can't even be trusted with a bottle of non-fuming nitric acid! *pout*
c.c

403 April 12 2009, 07:26:32 UTC

But you can get processor time on ridiculously powerful computers.

zeightyfiv April 12 2009, 19:36:11 UTC

Aye. But that doesn't make anything go *boom!*. c.c

universalblue April 12 2009, 18:39:25 UTC

LOL. I won't get into great detail, but urine does not bother me that much any more. I saw a very brief surgery and was bored. The most graphic thing I've seen so far was a lady's hand that was stitched back together (I mean the fingers were reattached. Fingers, plural). But I didn't see the stitching, I just xray-ed the results.

I should still be, for the sake of not dying from a disease. But I'm not afraid of blood much now. Not that I was ever greatly afraid, but its a natural response to avoid it.

-BF