All chemists from 1925 are dead.
Chemistry
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MeatPilot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
10_0@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Not me, that means there’s a 100% survival rate
hanke@feddit.nu 8 months ago
Correlation, not causation
Rooskie91@discuss.online 8 months ago
As someone who worked in nuclear power you should definitely NOT pipette by mouth.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As someone who worked with radioactive materials: I dropped my screwdriver :(
Rooskie91@discuss.online 8 months ago
RIP, Science 0 Demon core: what like 3 now?
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Chasing the dragon again eh
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 8 months ago
Hey, at least you are not a smoothskin anymore!
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How else will you get that gorgeous metallic flavor that portends your teeth falling out?
General_Effort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn’t even use gloves and lived to 102.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 months ago
Started to feel bad at work and then drove home on the worlds first acid trip.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 months ago
chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Curie, Death,
Be “alpha” in the grave 😎😎 supaaa
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah the alpha is fine, it’s the beta and gamma radiation that got her
EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
You got me,
Except if this going inside the corps 😅🤗
propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 months ago
“heats up lunch with a Bunsen burner”
janus2@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I tried scrambling an egg using the vortexer (it didn’t work)
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 8 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 8 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 8 months ago
I’ll never get the vague vinegar stains out of my hand
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Vague Vinegar is 100% something you’d make in slime rancher
plinky@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Still better than first phosphorus discovery
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t look in my lab please.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
Dunno about now, but I had to pipette stuff in BTech. That’s less than 10 years ago.
Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Chemists from 1925 in 1960… I don’t remember always having this much cancer… Or reduced lung function.