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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That’s some tasty chlorine

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

EHS would approve the eye protection at least.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Are you even sciencing if you don't drink some piss you found in a beaker somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Observation: this looks like piss} Question: is this piss?} Hypothesis: this is probably piss} Experiment: drink the piss} Analysis: tastes like piss} Conclusion: it’s piss

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Sometimes it be like that.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is probably worse than piss.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Enjoy your benzene

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Johnny was a chemists son. But Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H20, Was H2S04.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

The one I remember from school was phrased slightly differently (but same concept) :

Poor little Jimmy is lying on the floor, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (5 children)

distilled water, lab grade ethanol, a couple drops of limonene, and there you go

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sadly the Erlenmeyer flask was previously used for some nasty water soluble compounds and just looks clean.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

rinse -> acetic acid -> rinse -> Acqua regia-> Rinse -> Pirahna solution -> Rinse -> 500°C oven -> Rinse

I would then drink from it without even worrying

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the phase-change cooling from the addition of solid state H20.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

No, they're talking about a ridiculously high mass isotope of Hydrogen. Turns out it has some wacky properties.

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