It's only been relatively recently that people in labs stopped sucking cancer causing and poisonous chemicals out of containers with their mouths on a pipette.
Bulb pipette (like a turkey baster) and glass pipette (like putting your finger over a straw) have been around since the 1940s? Mouth pipetting was banned in most places in the 1970s.
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Szymon@lemmy.ca · 63 pts · 2y
It's only been relatively recently that people in labs stopped sucking cancer causing and poisonous chemicals out of containers with their mouths on a pipette.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 2y
Oh, so this is why they are so insistent in lab that people don't use a pipette with their mouths. I thought it was mostly a meme!
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
No, mouth pipetting is a real thing
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 7 pts · 2y
How do you know it's done if you can't get a taste?
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Bulb pipette (like a turkey baster) and glass pipette (like putting your finger over a straw) have been around since the 1940s? Mouth pipetting was banned in most places in the 1970s.
Szymon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
Yes, I did say relatively. Although I did hear second hand that was seen by a foreign guest researcher at a facility I worked at about a decade ago.
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 2y
Seems historically accurate given the level of radiation exposure a lot of the nuclear scientists got
Zeth0s@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Scientists used to "taste" new chemical compounds. This is extremely accurate
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
That's basically how LSD got discovered
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 2y
Well he's wearing a lab coat, so he's already better than 99% of scientists.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 21 pts · 2y
In his defense, he said he's only good at theory and had others do the lab stuff
Someboynumber5reborn@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Oopsenhiemer
Speiser0@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
Have you heard of the demon core yet? https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2593:_Deviled_Eggs
perviouslyiner@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Two of the people in that tower with him died from fucking about with plutonium in the lab
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I mean, that was the point. He was notoriously bad in the lab.