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I'm going to find whoever passed this hosed up lot of xylene and throw them into the sun, that nearly hosed up my whole day  Edit: Xylene snipe, everybody make sure your reagents are, you know, what they say they are and also of an acceptable quality to work with!
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Johnny Truant posted:I'm going to find whoever passed this hosed up lot of xylene and throw them into the sun, that nearly hosed up my whole day
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Dik Hz posted:I was going to make a a joke about your xylenes having too much 1,3-dimethyl benzene, but decided it was too meta. 
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Dik Hz posted:I was going to make a a joke about your xylenes having too much 1,3-dimethyl benzene, but decided it was too meta.  In other, fun lab-related fuckups, I just walked by one of our standard(not biohazard or sharps) trash bins and saw it was filled with mice AND human brain slides!  I'm glad it's Friday.
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Johnny Truant posted:In other, fun lab-related fuckups, I just walked by one of our standard(not biohazard or sharps) trash bins and saw it was filled with mice AND human brain slides! Mouse brain slides, or just mice? Or both?
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Antivehicular posted:Mouse brain slides, or just mice? Or both? All slides, no mice corpses or brains, thank god.
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Live mice eating human brain slides. Run.
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It's not a good day when the FDA shows up for an inspection and sends a guy we fired a few years ago.
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That Works posted:More surprised that FDA is doing inspections during a shutdown tbh. Someone was joking that hes just pretending to be an FDA inspector and since no one is home at the FDA we cant call to verify it. Realistically I'm surprised too but I think they are considered essential personnel so inspectors still gotta inspect.
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Found the person before me had labelled the lid of a bottle of NaCl as MgCl2. The real MgCl2 bottle was in an isolated drierite jar. Glad I caught it because making artificial CSF with the wrong ingredients would have seriously hosed all our experiments.
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Tunicate posted:Found the person before me had labelled the lid of a bottle of NaCl as MgCl2.
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Dik Hz posted:You should track down the salt culprit and Cs then Ba. You're a good person.
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Dik Hz posted:You should track down the salt culprit and Cs then Ba. Hahaah
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Dik Hz posted:You should track down the salt culprit and Cs then Ba. good post
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Does anyone else get struck with intrusive thoughts on how you should just take a BIG OL SWIG of whatever you are working with? I work in personal care formulation so i don't really work with anything super nasty but like... I want to drink this gallon of CCT u feel me
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stimulated emission posted:Does anyone else get struck with intrusive thoughts on how you should just take a BIG OL SWIG of whatever you are working with? Looks at ecoli culture and lysate. eh, no.
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stimulated emission posted:Does anyone else get struck with intrusive thoughts on how you should just take a BIG OL SWIG of whatever you are working with? *Looks at cholera culture* No.
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stimulated emission posted:Does anyone else get struck with intrusive thoughts on how you should just take a BIG OL SWIG of whatever you are working with? *looks at formalin fixed brains in silver solution* Hmm, nah.
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I'm good with coffee personally.
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I have oncolytic powders and phosphoric acid. Tea is the clear winner here.
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ive tasted many things in the lab...mostly by accident qiagen buffer p2 and n3 are not tasty, avoid at all costs
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Micronized grape flavor powder for a children's formulation is my I also had a drug about eight years ago that bound to taste receptors and made everything taste bitter for weeks if you breathed it in. It'd have been a lovely diet aid had it not been a (failed) attempt at treating pancreatic cancer.
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Sundae posted:I also had a drug about eight years ago that bound to taste receptors and made everything taste bitter for weeks if you breathed it in. It'd have been a lovely diet aid had it not been a (failed) attempt at treating pancreatic cancer. Wonder how well it'd fight against that protein in miracleberries/
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If we're talking accidentally smelling stuff. I got a nice whiff of chloroform once. It burned the nostrils pretty bad and was a pretty small amount.
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Tunicate posted:Wonder how well it'd fight against that protein in miracleberries/ Monellin? I know of an article where the coauthors (professors, post docs and PhDs )willingly tested different mutants of it by ingesting it. One way to get around the ethics committee. Artonos posted:If we're talking accidentally smelling stuff. I got a nice whiff of chloroform once. It burned the nostrils pretty bad and was a pretty small amount. Accidentally smelling stuff is kinda normal procedure. For various reasons we set pH using non diluted HCl which is a constant source of enjoyment.
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Cardiac posted:Monellin? Miraculin, apparently.
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Artonos posted:If we're talking accidentally smelling stuff. I got a nice whiff of chloroform once. It burned the nostrils pretty bad and was a pretty small amount. a light whiff of chloroform smells kinda sweet. any more though and it's downright nasty.
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stimulated emission posted:Does anyone else get struck with intrusive thoughts on how you should just take a BIG OL SWIG of whatever you are working with? I had a friend who would gently caress with people by taking a sip of the buffer he was working with if anyone was watching, it was always PBS but it got some good laughs. Now I work with human tissue, so I’d rather let the robots handle it.
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I will confess that I've always wanted to taste deuterated water
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stimulated emission posted:Does anyone else get struck with intrusive thoughts on how you should just take a BIG OL SWIG of whatever you are working with? Tryptic soy broth smells kinda gross when it's cooking but on the other hand it's purple so maybe it tastes like kool-aid and I just don't know it
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Laboratory Chat: Making the Tide Pod Challenge
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Discendo Vox posted:Laboratory Chat: Making the Tide Pod Challenge Someone please make this happen I now recall a story from my undergraduate adviser about when he was pipetting by mouth as an undergrad (would have been the 40s) and got a mouth full of some organic solvent. He said it tasted like what gasoline smells like.
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When I was still at the bench I'd always eye the bottles on non-denatured pure ethanol in our solvent room.
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gninjagnome posted:When I was still at the bench I'd always eye the bottles on non-denatured pure ethanol in our solvent room. It probably taste like everclear which is just burning sensation in a bottle. Reminds me of one night I was working late in graduate school. It was 2 or 3 am and I needed to use something in the bio lab so i walked down stairs and while walking down the hall i saw the lab door was open and could see some figures inside. I kinda had a hunch what was going on so i opened the door and kicked the lights on. I found three undergrad students I knew staring at me like deer in headlights standing around the solvent cabinet with a bottle of medical grade ethanol. One of them worked in that lab and had keys to get in. before one of them could finish a sentience told them if they put it back i wouldn't tell the professor or the university police other wise I would call the police and let them deal with it. They sheepishly put it back and told them to not do poo poo so stupid since the next time they might get caught by someone less forgiving. After that I suggested to the professor to lock up the ethanol after pointing out that someone might try to take it and would poison themselves he liked the idea and only gave keys to grad students.
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Should? No. Media already used for cultures? Hell no. Fresh LB and Todd Hewitt broths kinda smell good, and I'll admit to wondering how they taste. I'd never consider consuming anything that had been in that lab, though, that place was gross. And every time I prepared 4M NaCl I wondered how salty it would taste, but that's something I could just do at home if I really wanted to.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:Someone please make this happen I'm very fond of the smell of dichloromethane.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:I will confess that I've always wanted to taste deuterated water Tastes like water I would assume. Must have tasted it one time or another. Difference between deuterated water and normal water is hydrogen bond strength and molecular weight. Having grown Ecoli in 50% deuterated water the main difference is that everything goes slower but not much else. Also, if you don’t have 20% and 70% solutions of non denatured ethanol standing around everywhere in the lab I don’t know what to say. Helps that we don’t have students and phds in the lab. Lab ethanol kinda loses its charm after having it freely available.
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Cardiac posted:Tastes like water I would assume. Must have tasted it one time or another. It's slightly sweet.
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I like the way a 50:50 methanol-water solution smells. Also vanillin TLC stain, a delivery guy thought we were baking cupcakes. Lucky for him it wasn’t a Swern oxidation day, that smells terrible. My personal, least favorite smell is pyridine.
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