• Qkall@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Relative tale… And I let me preface this by saying… I know now how dangerous this was and how lucky I am. But this was chem 101 qkall… That dude was stupid.

    Anyway, we had this like 151 experiment project we had to finish by the end of the year. A lot of what is mentioned in the meme… Clear stuff mixing to more clear stuff. And we had to figure out what it was with a few simple experiments. Anyway, did I mention old, younger qkall was a bit of an idiot? Well that dumb ass forgot and had to do something like 70 experiments in one evening. To date myself a bit, this was before they really gave a shit who was in the building doing what. They just trusted you… So it’s me at like 8pm solo in the lab. I’m starting to clean up and… and yes… I know dumb… I put all the spare reagents in one big beaker and clean up my lab space. I turn around to dump my waste… And what I see was beautiful and terrifying… The liquid was purple. The gas was green and purple … And there were adorable green fireballs coming out of the beaker. Again very dumb… I close the hood and nope the fuck out… Fast forward to a much smarter and educated qkall. We’re last year seniors discussing our battle wounds and a peer is like ‘guys one time I went into the intro chem lab and the one hood was covered in purple stuff and there was broken glass everywhere.’ I let them finish their story telling how arduous the process was… Then sheepishly spoke up 'uh, so one I’m sorry but let me tell you what happened ’

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      4 months ago

      The chemists only smell like the ethanol used for “analyzing”

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    4 months ago

    Yeah, mostly true, but sometimes in the pursuit of new colorless liquids they accidentally invent interdimensional travel

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    4 months ago

    “Martini cocktail tastes better with gin than with formaldehyde”

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    4 months ago

    Also microbiology, but with some tiny death cookies stuck to the bottom.

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    4 months ago

    More like white powders and clear liquids to make a new white powder. But some reactions do have cool colours.