polyfractal posted:

My coworker recently started using some methyl mercury compound to help their troublesome PCRs. It's apparently highly volatile and potentially shock-explosive so you have to be very gentle with the bottle, but also has to be stored at 4C. So we have this bomb sitting in our common fridge because where else are we going to put it? Not to mention she's using it for radioactive tRNA labeling experiments so it'd be exploding, radioactive methyl mercury solutions. Whee!