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pmchem
Jan 21, 2010

DurianGray posted:

I was also both unsurprised and horrified by how apparently lax a lot of safety parameters were back then. Even just the short anecdote of him and some other scientists casually eating lunch in a chemistry lab WHILE processing chemicals just a few feet away (one container of which exploded, of course).

lol

if: you have done for-real research in a chemistry lab,
and if: you have had a desk of your own in that lab

then: you have eaten food at that desk

it's like a metaphysical certitude

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