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fossilesque @mander.xyz

2y ago

Those were the days!

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DON'T MOUTH THE PIPET!!!
- Sad pipet noises

Explanation? Are these guys huffing ether or something?
- They pipette by mouth, which is not very safe.
  
  but how are we supposed to accidentally discover artificial sweeteners?
- They are using their mouths to suck liquids into pipettes. It was an old and dangerous lab technique.
  
  Then how are we supposed to do that?
- Basically it took many years before someone developed something that could be run with a trigger or button. Before that you used a vacuum (your mouth) to pull liquid into a pipette. Heard an older chemistry professor talk about a colleague who years before swallowed a salmonella sample by accident. A lot of people surely got hurt this way.
- not a scientist but I'm guessing they are siphoning some chemical by sucking up a small amount in the tube to transfer it to another container
  
  Aww, I thought they were blowing bubbles. Looked like fun.

lol lol let me suck up this salmonella sample real fast

I thought they were sipping pee to test for diabetes 😋😌

Uh, yeah, suck it, pipet boy.

Pipettecore ftw!?

Look how long their fancy straws are! I bet they keep chemicals a safe distance away from possible ingestion!
- I'm wondering if a crazy straw was tested...for safety

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