revised for accuracy and experience
The5 6 steps of a lab smell detector:
5 6 stages of a lab smell generator:
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1. What is that smell? Hey, do you smell that?The
2. What the (**&(*& is that $#$#$!! smell?
3. Did something crawl in your hood and die?
4. Is this thing toxic? Do you have a SDS?
5. You $#$#$#!!! moron! Did you try bleach?
6. Dude, you stink. Go away.
1. What smell? I don't smell anything.
2. Okay, it's not that bad.
3. Seriously, how much of a wimp are you? I've smelled things much worse.
4. Look, the odor threshold is far, far, far lower than the toxicity. It just smells bad, that's all.
5. Yes, I've heard about the #$$%! smell. Yes, I closed the doors to my hood.
6. What smell? I don't smell nothin'.
The 5 stages of a lab smell generator:
ReplyDelete#7: Don't worry, the hood will take care of it.
Heard from a grad student friend as she cooked up her latest "Mercaptan Delight" in the hood one Friday evening. They closed the library across the street that night. :-)
Kent State?
DeleteI'm an alumnus and hadn't heard that story! Was this recent?
DeleteMississippi State over 40 years ago..
DeleteAs a grad student I did a lot of S and Se chemistry and those stink. I regularly used #3 and #4.
ReplyDelete"4. Look, the odor threshold is far, far, far lower than the toxicity. It just smells bad, that's all." **chuckle**
ReplyDeleteoh nothing, just a swern oxidation
ReplyDeleteWas Lynyrd Skynyrd a chemist? -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJQkwmwesY
ReplyDeleteNo, but Ronnie, Allen, et al. used to believe in better living through chemistry.
DeleteI had a colleague who once told another “If you can’t handle bad smells, go work in a flower shop.” I chuckled
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