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How to Halt a Rotary Evaporation
(sh.itjust.works)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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As our laboratory's butterfingers, I find that this happens everywhere, but also the rotovap and always at the worst possible times.
Some of my colleagues refuse to directly hand me sample vials now because they've seen me frantically attempt to save a sample I dropped by treating it like a hackey sack one too many times.
If your lab assistant needed the rotovap moved to a hood quickly, chances are it should have been in there to begin with.