All chemists from 1925 are dead.
Chemistry
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MeatPilot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
10_0@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Not me, that means there’s a 100% survival rate
hanke@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Correlation, not causation
Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 months ago
As someone who worked in nuclear power you should definitely NOT pipette by mouth.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As someone who worked with radioactive materials: I dropped my screwdriver :(
Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 months ago
RIP, Science 0 Demon core: what like 3 now?
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Chasing the dragon again eh
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 10 months ago
Hey, at least you are not a smoothskin anymore!
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How else will you get that gorgeous metallic flavor that portends your teeth falling out?
General_Effort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn’t even use gloves and lived to 102.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 10 months ago
Started to feel bad at work and then drove home on the worlds first acid trip.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Didn’t he (famously) ride his bike home?
General_Effort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.
This was, altogether, a remarkable experience - both in its sudden onset and its extraordinary course. It seemed to have resulted from some external toxic influence; I surmised a connection with the substance I had been working with at the time, lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate. But this led to another question: how had I managed to absorb this material? Because of the known toxicity of ergot substances, I always maintained meticulously neat work habits. Possibly a bit of the LSD solution had contacted my fingertips during crystallization, and a trace of the substance was absorbed through the skin. If LSD-25 had indeed been the cause of this bizarre experience, then it must be a substance of extraordinary potency. There seemed to be only one way of getting to the bottom of this. I decided on a self-experiment.
Exercising extreme caution, I began the planned series of experiments with the smallest quantity that could be expected to produce some effect, considering the activity of the ergot alkaloids known at the time: namely, 0.25 mg (mg = milligram = one thousandth of a gram) of lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate.
From LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann. I will leave it to others to explain all the ways in which this is absolutely hair-raising.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
at least he went about it scientifically rather than going “yo bruh try somma this shit, it’s fire trust me”
janus2@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I’ve gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second
underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn’t be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(
draughtcyclist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m all fairness, nobody should be using fuming nitric acid unless absolutely necessary.
At least you didn’t catch on fire. It likes to do that too.
azi@mander.xyz 10 months ago
My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had “no mouth pipetting” signs up in the late 90s.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 10 months ago
chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Curie, Death,
Be “alpha” in the grave 😎😎 supaaa
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah the alpha is fine, it’s the beta and gamma radiation that got her
EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You got me,
Except if this going inside the corps 😅🤗
propter_hog@hexbear.net 10 months ago
“heats up lunch with a Bunsen burner”
janus2@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I tried scrambling an egg using the vortexer (it didn’t work)
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Little Johnny has gone to H He’ll be with us no more For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4
python@programming.dev 10 months ago
Do they still sell the Pipetting silly straws somewhere? I was in a Bio lab last week and they didn’t have any (but still told everyone to NOT pipette the E.Coli with their mouths) so I really want to try that now
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll never get the vague vinegar stains out of my hand
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Vague Vinegar is 100% something you’d make in slime rancher
plinky@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Still better than first phosphorus discovery
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t look in my lab please.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 10 months ago
Dunno about now, but I had to pipette stuff in BTech. That’s less than 10 years ago.
Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Chemists from 1925 in 1960… I don’t remember always having this much cancer… Or reduced lung function.