How to Halt a Rotary Evaporation (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Is this something that happens with am rotary evaporators? I remember needing to quickly help a lab assistant get the aparatus to a fume hood when they were trying to demonstrate it in my undergrad.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

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.