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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?
By distilling piss from diabetic people? Idk I'm not a scientist i just like the memes
WTF? Piss is all natural!
unless you drink from the pipet
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.
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?
I am a bit concerned everyone is just mentioning the squeeze rubber ball thing, maybe because its time appropriate for the images.
But in modern times people should use something like this https://www.integra-biosciences.com/global/en/pipette-controllers/pipetboy-acu-2
That's the worst squirtgun ever.
Use a rubber bulb on the end of the pipette. That way your ~~cartel members~~ lab techs are safe.
We still use mouth in secondary school. I guess its same in undergraduate degree too. But yeah we only take the base in acid-base titration in pipette
definitely not standard procedure here in the US. And basic solutions can be more dangerous than acids.
I guess they only gjve non toxic bases for school
Jesus Christ. 20 years ago my chem teacher used to tell me about the bad old days of having to do this, that it's still happening today is horrifying.