you know you miss synthetic chemistry when...
After an uneventful first few weeks here, I almost started two fires today. While it isn't very difficult to do that in an organic lab, it is not an easy task when working on the physical-chem side of materials.
It will definitely be the highlight of my entire summer.
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More details please, thats like no information at all. I would expect more from an AIM message than that.
Mitch
Yeah, that was kinda the point. There isn't much story to accompany an almost-fire.
In related news, cork ring is not terribly heat-resistant.
i was going to say, the only way to start a fire in a phys chem lab is a bunch of instrument manuals and a box of matches swiped from a synthetic lab. but cork rings will do to.
come on, explain how you made fire. in return i'll share my t-butyllithium fire story.
Flip a spin, go to jail. Virtual orbitals may not be used in Federally-subsidized chemistry. Solvent levels in visible bottles must be uniform. Brown bottles only. No white bottles in lab - especially not if they are filled. If we are to end criminality we must begin with criminals.
Did you bend the plug's prongs to fit into an unused 220 V socket? "8^>)
If you share your story with us, I'll share my near fire in grad school.
Details!!! =)
There's really not much of a story to tell. I had some overzealous heating tape and a less-than-awesome temperature controller. You know something's wrong when you see DMSO boiling but the thing still reads 60C.
I think that calling the apparatus a temperature controller is a misnomer, although I guess that it didn't reach nuclear fusion temperatures so the apparatus sort of controlled the temperature.
In related news, I don't think lots of things are happy in boiling DMSO.
I know a certain type of heterocyclic small molecule scaffold that only likes hot DMSO when it comes to dissolving.
I'm not so happy around boiling DMSO either.
Ψ*Ψ, got ur reply. My first fire was in my freshmen organic lab. Leaky gas hose. I didn't check before lighting up with a match, the whole bench was on fire. I managed to keep cool, reach out and turn off the gas. Pheew,but I did burn a little of my eyebrow. TA was no where to be seen. Irresponsible fella!
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