I'm a Mawg. Half-Man, Half-Dog. I'm My Own Best Friend.
Our Mass Spec lab (undoubtedly one of the best in the country) has a pretty cheeky sense of humor. You have to check in your samples with a form you fill out online. Looks completely normal, except...
Awesome.
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When the wolfbane blooms and the Autumn moon is bright... M+. Who's doing DARPA pharma?
We held a comnpetition at Celera for the best name for our clinical candidate. I was trying to enter Enfuriazole - but was told this was a terribly serious business Not To Be Made Fun Of.
I bet the sample reacts violently with silver metal.
Oh, man. That's fantastic. I wish the mass spec forms here were more exciting...
I would say "Violently and unpredictably morphs into an Andromedan" in "Other". Looking at the other qualities taken together, this one would seem downright boring.
Our Mr Techguy asked us to write down the rxn mechanism, fill in ALL physical datas, and get a declaration from our supervisor, before you can send him the sample. We just wonder why he need the mechanism???
Ha. The best.
Did they decide to add this based on a bad experience or something?
I mean, I would be so freaked out if something I synthesized turned me into a wolf... again.
They must have a good collection of "properties" from the "other" section.
That's awesome! A Spaceballs reference! I love it!
Taitauwai,
Possibly to see if any side reactions are possible and thus if the product is impure - which would give really wonky data difficult to interpret.
He had responsibility to interpret the data?
Liquid C,
No, Techguy wouldn't interpret data. If there is insane data to deal with, Techguy would only need to carry out the spectrograph again. Although maybe Techguy just likes mechanisms. Or possibly he's a stickler for proper documentation.
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