Not Voodoo
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Demystifying Synthetic Organic Chemistry
University of Rochester
Joined April 2014
Today's featured Rookie Mistakes shows the ways people spill stuff in the lab- not only liquids and powder but also odd clouds of gas
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When you mix up your tubes, or your flasks, or your reagent bottles. A mistake not just for rookies. Just added new examples.And here's the whole list.
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RT @HuigensRob: PI experiment of the day…pull broken adapter stuck in perfectly good $200-plus column out of broken glassware box…use the l….
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Speaking of rotovaps, they're not so easy to operate. 22 different Rookie Mistakes show up if you search for "rotovap" at this link:.
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I should probably shift that one to Just…Wow.
@Not_Voodoo Why, in the name of all that is holy, would you wash nmr tube lids with DCM??.
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Adding new mistakes every day for a little while. I had a backlog😐.
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Can find a few more here:.
Happy accidents: Scientists share their stories of breaking lab equipment.
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I'm embarrassed I didn't notice that. I reset the data for cyclopentadiene to 0 votes. Please let me know if there are other obvious problems!.
I love that 70% of chemists replied that cyclopentadiene can be used right out of the bottle 😂😂😂. Disclaimer: not dragging Not voodoo at all, I use the website *religiously*.
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Anyway, looking forward to sharing some new mistakes with you soon.
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So I've got over 200 Rookie Mistakes piled up. When someone submits a mistake, I review and approve before posting. Why so many? Long story. I still have one problem to solve before I can start approving.
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