These bongs are awfully designed.
Left-handed sep funnel anyone?
Submitted 10 months ago by qaz@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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CluckN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The number 1 job of any chem teacher, professor, lab tech instructor - Stop the kids from theiving the glassware to turn into bongs
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 months ago
i was going to say making meth.
porksnort@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Stop them? Or drop subtle hints as to how to do it correctly and teach some basic physics at the same time?
Carvex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah no percolator on any of them, gonna be rough hit
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You laugh, until you realize the measurement lettering (if its even still fucking visible) is only on one side.
ech@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I know nothing about manufacturing, but I wonder if/how it’s cheaper to do this rather than just printing on both sides.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
that’s not at all my area of manufacturing, but I would think it’s cheaper to just mark on both sides
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You’re right. I’m no longer laughing.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Eh, make ‘left handed’ glassware that alters the chirality of the resultants , now I am interested.
=P
lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 months ago
It does, but only for racemic mixtures: instead of getting 50% R, you get 50% S.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Whatever you do, do not grow life in there
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It would be far better for certain organic compounds though. Increase the effectiveness of drugs, eliminate side-effects, drastically cheapen the production of many componds making new products feasible.
But yeah, already living things would probably die very quickly.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I appreciate that the lab supply corp has an only fans page… that’s service.
KingGordon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like to send my helpers looking for left-handed screwdriver.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Righty loosy lefty tighty?
KingGordon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No just one that a left hander can use.
ooterness@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be clear, this glassware isn’t for the lab worker, it’s for chiral molecules that are left-handed or right-handed. As explained by famous chemist Walter White. /s
Rednax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do they also have lab equipment for in Australia?
qaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t be silly, just rotate it
bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They haven’t figured out how to get it working upside down yet. You’ll have to find a local retailer.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reminds me of the study that proved the four distinct klein flask orientations after realizing the 4th was the inverted topology of the third.
Hupf@feddit.org 10 months ago
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I don’t know about chemistry stuff, but as a leftie, this would make me thrilled because of the labeling side.
So often the labels on various unsymmetric things are on the side which would face you if you’re holding the thing right-handed. I’ve lost count of the number of times I pick stuff up on the opposite side of the handle just so I can look at the label.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I mean the solution would be to literally just label both sides.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
do you think labels just grow on trees?
Bosht@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But then they might lost .10 per item!!!
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I mean, I’m not left handed but… I still have a left hand and like to use it some times. :/
Some accessibility wins benefit everyone and it could be so easy.