I set my desk on fire and left before it was out. They found me eating lunch.
How often do you guys mess up during labs?
Didn't know catholic schools teach chemistry lab
>university gen chem lab
>have to make silver compound or some shit
>everything is literally going too well
>last step is to add acetone the final product and heat*
>heat it like anything else ive ever done
>final product shoots out the 10cc test tube
>look again at the instructions
>*heat very slowly or else you'll lose your final product as it'll shoot out of your test tube
>lab professor took pity on me and gave me a C+
I've never been so fucking pissed in my life.
Never, I dont do labs since I swiched to mathematics
There was a guy at chem who made a volcano of a boiling acid chrome solution.
that was pretty neato
>spilling shit on the floor for no fucking reason
everyone fucks up, even pros. What matters if how good you are at troubleshooting shit really. Havnt broken glass in like 4 years though, feels good man.
>finish experiment which requires liquid nitrogen
>throw excess liquid nitrogen on the floor
best thing ever. that and breaking glass on purpose throwing it into glass waste bins, especially test tubes
>doing hydrolysis of silicones experiment
>starting reagent is Trimethylsilyl chloride
>dont read the COSHH that says under no circumstances handle it without gloves or a fumehood
>open that naughty bottle up, standing pretty far away
>take a (luckily) tiny breath in the vicinity and then suddenly
>FUCK ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>smells of the worst pain ive experienced, hydrolysis into HCl in your lungs, all that good shit
read the COSHH, lads
Chem students are losers
>Doing restriction enzyme cuts
>adding a billion different reagents in minute amounts
>forget if I added something already or not
>start over
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