Sunday, February 1, 2009

I'm a lab TA organic chemistry, and tomorrow they are doing Grignards. Hopefully no one will point the heat gun at a flask of ether. It should be exciting times, though.
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Ψ*Ψ said...

Hopefully no one will point the heat gun at a flask of ether.

Actually, that works very well to start the reaction...if you're careful. I guess your students are probably working on a smaller scale than I was, though...

February 1, 2009 at 8:35 PM
CB said...

the border between starting an explosion and starting up the reaction, in the hands of a sophomore organic chemsitry student is waaaayyyy too close for that to be safe...

February 1, 2009 at 10:18 PM

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