Comment on Math and Physics Majors

• NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Need to make a new compound? Use a carcinogen

  Need to neutralize a reactive compound? Carcinogen

  Need to clean your glassware? Believe it or not, carcinogen.

  Chemists have the most applicable skills of any science majors, and it’s all because of carcinogens.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To quote an old professor: “there isn’t a lab table dirty enough that a little benzene won’t clean it!”

    He also habitually turned his head sideways when working with, say, ether, because you dont want your pipe to set the fumes on fire.

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