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[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Need to make a new compound? Use a carcinogen

Liquid/liquid extraction? Carcinogen

Neutralize a reactive compound? Carcinogen

Clean your glassware? Believe it or not, carcinogen.

Chemists have the most applicable skills of any science majors, and it's all because of carcinogens.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To quote an old professor: "there isn't a lab table dirty enough that a little benzene won't clean it!" Fortunately for us (and him) 'they' wouldn't let him do that anymore.

He also habitually turned his head sideways when working with, say, ether, because you dont want your pipe to set the fumes on fire.

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