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JiminaMann@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI wonder if there’s a random bored chemist that has a youtube channel just talking about what each ingredient in daily life items does
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve actually come across this one in hematology, its used as a reagent in some analyzers to lyse red cells to release hemoglobin for direct measurement. source: I’m a lab tech.
alaphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This sounds like a really pretty way of saying “stabbing someone” at first brush, tbh lol
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
lol, I guess its versatile. Red cells lyse fairly easily, if you just let them sit in water they’ll burst due to osmotic pressure (thats why we give people saline/salt water), this is just a really effective method of quickly bursting them I guess. The analyzers are pretty cool, when the dr orders a CBC/complete blood count its one instrument that measures hemoglobin, red cell indeces (red cell size, hemoglobin content, volume), platelets and a breakdown of your different white cell populations all within a few minutes. Blood is pretty cool, I’m not a vampire.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No but you’re a petty lying bastard; we both know that sample wasn’t clotted when I sent it!
alaphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Obviously not, you’re pretty clearly a ninja (i think lol). Also, I’m not gonna lie, this kinda fascinates me because science, but I also have a low key medical phobia kinda thing so it squicks me out a little at the same time lol. My SO is actually a scientist as well (not medical/bio, tho, thankfully lol she’s an environmental scientist) and I love it when she talks sci to me 😂🤣 so I even recognize like all of the words you used and everything