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Nov 10, 2010 00:00

If one is going to break a beaker, one should do so spectacularly. The beaker is supposed to keep the centrifuge tube you're collecting crude cyclohexene cold post distillation. Fill it with ice and then go get a claw clamp from the stockroom. Chose the claw clamp carefully, no crocked arms or corroded rubber, glare at anyone else who comes near ( Read more... )

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shaharazadd November 12 2010, 00:11:25 UTC
I always love your posts.

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east_of_sun November 18 2010, 08:41:42 UTC
Thank you, that means a lot to me!

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stray17 November 12 2010, 00:32:19 UTC
The last merger of these my dear polymath was Mary Shelley. I eagerly await the monsters.

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east_of_sun November 18 2010, 08:42:10 UTC
Oh dear. I hope I do not disappoint!

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gimmecat November 14 2010, 22:43:14 UTC
Yes, please write again. Your literary skills combined with all this newfound science are a deadly thing to behold . . .

This reminds me of one of those high school science classes where we were making root beer or something in big glass containers and my group's cracked spectacularly and root beer started leaking everywhere. You always need things like that to happen to keep class exciting.

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east_of_sun November 18 2010, 08:43:28 UTC
A couple weeks ago somebody else broke something and I remember distinctly how I felt I would just die if I was in her position.

I guess this is why we have to pay a small fee for "breakage insurance".

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