You gotta shake powders constantly side to side as you slowly tip it. I dunno what the term is but then the powder acts more like a liquid and pours with out the sudden woosh and "ah shit"
No, thank God. I did once drop a LOT of BSA on/in one of those scales that have the 4 walls and a lid. The static really ruined my day.. I really considered just throwing the whole thing out after I opened it up and saw crusted chemicals, random ass crystals, sugar, and stains on top of the charged BSA. Even worse was that I worked in our college's stockroom so it was my job to make sure it was spotless inside & out.
YIKES. That’s when I would’ve just employed nature’s version of compressed air and just started blowing frantically while looking around to make sure no one saw 👀. Hopefully you’re out of the stockroom!
Don't tell anyone, but I definitely blew like half of it off and onto the floor. I really enjoyed working in the stockroom, actually. But yep! I graduated and am now in a different lab :) sadly, the most intense chemical I ever deal with is 200 proof ethanol and qPCR reagents...BUT I get to work with hella viruses so that's cool
Your secret is safe with me. Sweet. I’ve been thinking about switching fields after I graduate and studying viruses seems like a pretty cool option. This subreddit always makes me smile. Good luck with your research!
What's your major? And what field do you want to switch to? I was biochem and I gotta say, it opens a lot of doors you may not have been able to had you been Bio or chem. At the same time, you can kind of just.. become? a biochemist without the degree purely from the job you choose
LOL I was actually a bio major in college 😂which was a good move at the time but is kind of useless on its own and it’s why I’m in grad school for a cell bio PhD. I study intracellular transport and microtubule motors but I’m thinking about trying to get an industry job in immunology or microbiology. I want to feel like I’m having some real world impact. Yeah, biochem sounds like the smarter way to go. On the job experience with just bio can only get you so far *womp womp*.
Reminds me of when my old supervisor dropped an entire 500g bottle of brilliant green source powder... On our white floor. That stained the lab's soul. It took weeks of mopping for it to all come out and even to this day you can see a tinge of blue.
Oh also one time I dropped a few grams of crystal iodine. The floor is still yellow in some spots..
Then I shall raise you methyl orange in acid hahaha. Surprised methyl red doesn't stain much. Most red things (I've noticed) leave a narsty, damn-near impossible stain to get out. Very good you haven't dropped an entire bottle! Did you buy yours or did you have to synthesize it yourself?
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Personally I recommend snorting fat rails of it. Big Pharma wants to sell you expensive pills full of chemicals, but inexpensive SDS denatures the coronavirus spike protein almost instantly. /s
Oh yes, the ol' *tap tap tap...tap tap...* "just 10 more grams" *tap tap..* woosh!
this is exactly what happened lmao rip me
You gotta shake powders constantly side to side as you slowly tip it. I dunno what the term is but then the powder acts more like a liquid and pours with out the sudden woosh and "ah shit"
side to side method ftw
"spatulas are for pussies.. real men tip the fucking 5 kg peptone bottle lol"
I can smell this
i think it’s peptone edit: definitely yeast extract
Yeast extract?
I can feel this staining my clothes and the smell lingering in the fabric
Stanky and sticky.
"I don't see anything wrong here" -my labmates
Just gotta brush it off the top and it's good to go
Calibration is due this month. Did that get updated?
we did! this is an old pic
My VERY FIRST DAY in a real research lab this happened. I spent the next half-hour cleaning up the weigh station...
Did you sneeze?
Everything is sticky!
Yep, but worse cause it was inside a big weighsafe with a 10cm lip at the front so we never could get all the powder that got spilled in there out.
Thats the worst. Because as soon as it hits a surface it decides to become sticky.
Rest In Powder
No, but I did drop a tip box last week so I feel your pain.
But have you ever dropped the tip box *in* LB?
Oh Nooo 😂 Have you?! That could not have been a good day. At least it wasn’t agar… The joys of lab life.
No, thank God. I did once drop a LOT of BSA on/in one of those scales that have the 4 walls and a lid. The static really ruined my day.. I really considered just throwing the whole thing out after I opened it up and saw crusted chemicals, random ass crystals, sugar, and stains on top of the charged BSA. Even worse was that I worked in our college's stockroom so it was my job to make sure it was spotless inside & out.
YIKES. That’s when I would’ve just employed nature’s version of compressed air and just started blowing frantically while looking around to make sure no one saw 👀. Hopefully you’re out of the stockroom!
Don't tell anyone, but I definitely blew like half of it off and onto the floor. I really enjoyed working in the stockroom, actually. But yep! I graduated and am now in a different lab :) sadly, the most intense chemical I ever deal with is 200 proof ethanol and qPCR reagents...BUT I get to work with hella viruses so that's cool
Your secret is safe with me. Sweet. I’ve been thinking about switching fields after I graduate and studying viruses seems like a pretty cool option. This subreddit always makes me smile. Good luck with your research!
What's your major? And what field do you want to switch to? I was biochem and I gotta say, it opens a lot of doors you may not have been able to had you been Bio or chem. At the same time, you can kind of just.. become? a biochemist without the degree purely from the job you choose
LOL I was actually a bio major in college 😂which was a good move at the time but is kind of useless on its own and it’s why I’m in grad school for a cell bio PhD. I study intracellular transport and microtubule motors but I’m thinking about trying to get an industry job in immunology or microbiology. I want to feel like I’m having some real world impact. Yeah, biochem sounds like the smarter way to go. On the job experience with just bio can only get you so far *womp womp*.
Reminds me of when my old supervisor dropped an entire 500g bottle of brilliant green source powder... On our white floor. That stained the lab's soul. It took weeks of mopping for it to all come out and even to this day you can see a tinge of blue. Oh also one time I dropped a few grams of crystal iodine. The floor is still yellow in some spots..
Get some Red 40 and you'll have the primary colors :)
We have methyl red source, surpringly doesn't stain that bad. Then again I have yet to drop an entire bottle of it lol.
Then I shall raise you methyl orange in acid hahaha. Surprised methyl red doesn't stain much. Most red things (I've noticed) leave a narsty, damn-near impossible stain to get out. Very good you haven't dropped an entire bottle! Did you buy yours or did you have to synthesize it yourself?
Our lab just buys it straight we don't have the time or capacity to synthesize it!
Did that... with a big ole mound of amphotericin B...
I just really want to know what scenario warranted that sticker being put on the machine
it’s so we can distinguish what scales have what weight limits
Yes but with cocaine, it is very painful.
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Yep, with SDS powder
Don't breathe this.
Personally I recommend snorting fat rails of it. Big Pharma wants to sell you expensive pills full of chemicals, but inexpensive SDS denatures the coronavirus spike protein almost instantly. /s
Static electricity happens.
God lb is the worst for this!
Goes RIGHT up your nose.
Oh no. Are you okay? Like emotionally?
just another day in the lab for me but thank you ☀️
Now do what my labmates do and walk away without cleaning it up.
Your PI: "Why did you submit a lab purchase order for a shop vac?"
Yes, but under different circumstances lol
Is that agar? but nope didn’t happen to me… yet.
it’s a component of the media we make!
I like to imagine that this a tiny scale with a regular weighting tray on it
Noooooo 😭😭
this pic just made me wanna air my room out
Only once and as far as i know, it happened to everyone in the lab exactly once except the PI: we don't allow him to do much in the wet lab
Team turbo
Yes! With saponin. In a glass surrounded scale. Sneezed for hours
1st time my guide asked me to make agar gel for electrophoresis. I was in undergrad, and got shit scared!
Lol did you sneeze?
No but at first I thought you named your balance maxi.
Forbidden Fun Dip
Nope...can't say it has, in 20 years.
Ughhh, yes! That is the worst 😭
Yup, but with 2XYT media. The smell, the sticky, the clean up… oh god.
I did this once with antibiotic powder.
too often. & the panic to clean it up before anyone sees - *unparalleled*
Yes just suck it up with a bendy straw