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[parcae]

When I got into lab today Chris was off TAing a genchem lab (as happens on Tuesday mornings), but there was a mask sitting on my desk. This was mostly awesome because I knew where they lived in the lab once but have since forgotten. So I went and turned the computer and the instrument on and let the program start to boot, put my gloves on, fumbled

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[silveraspen]

Eek.

Can you use it under a hood? I presume the lab has one? ... I really hope you aren't already doing so and it's STILL this bad....

[parcae]

Oh, no, yeah, uh -- my lab is sort of ridiculous, in that we have two hoods (one of which is Max's, at the moment, because he is running his GIANT BEAST OF A COLUMN again), and one of them is right above the cabinets with the solvents. And there's a thingy (this is the scientific term) to get air shooting out very quickly which is super-useful for cooling glassware that's just come out of the oven in the hood, so I pour my solvents in there because that's where my beakers are. So I was standing in front of the hood with the -- I think it's called a sash, but whatever, the glass thing that raises or lowers depending on what you need to reach -- lowered as much as possible while still enabling me to pour, with this mask on, and I still felt like retching my guts out.

I hate pyridine. :( :( :(