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To: Fedora
Since I'm reminiscing... There was this one kid. Very nice, he'll make a great salesman but boy he was dense.

We were doing an ionic substitution lab: mix two chemicals and something interesting happens. Sometimes you get a bubbly gas, sometimes it makes a pretty colored solid. (Your business partner can elaborate further.) Vey fun.

The instructions were to test each chemical against every other chemical, one pairing at a time. We did all this "microscale" using a few drops of chemical in a special plate that has little depressions in it. Instead of setting up a grid and testing one combination in each depression, this kid put *all* the chemicals in the same depression. It made a nasty mess. I coulda boxed his ears.

I could have boxed his mother's ears when she called me up to complain that the lab was too hard.

1,277 posted on 07/15/2004 4:03:11 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper
Nothing like a boring story to kill a thread.

Next time I'll try vacation photos.

1,278 posted on 07/15/2004 4:13:32 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

"Instead of setting up a grid and testing one combination in each depression, this kid put *all* the chemicals in the same depression."

Yikes! What was all in it?


1,288 posted on 07/15/2004 4:34:38 PM PDT by Fedora (Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)
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