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Chemical safety for teachers webinar next week
Just a quick post to spread the word that the American Association of...
Unintended consequences: Exploding pianos
From Periodic Videos, an old story about pianos, theatrical “flash...
Legacy samples yield headaches
Several safety breaches involving pathogens have brought attention to the...
Tornado simulation results in methanol fire, children burned
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Academic lab safety: One chemist’s observations
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UC, Patrick Harran face criminal charges in death of Sheri Sangji
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed charges yesterday against the University of California and UC Los Angeles professor Patrick Harran for felony violations of labor laws...
In the #SheriSangji case: Sufficient training and oversight?
Is an experiment with an air sensitive catalyst an appropriate way to gauge experimental skill and technique to handle a pyrophoric reagent? That appeared to be one of the arguments that the defense...
What is the most dangerous chemical you’ve handled?
Courtesy of the Periodic Table of Videos, faculty and staff at the University of Nottingham discuss the most dangerous chemicals they’ve handled: cyclopentadienyl nickel nitrosyl, (C5H5)NiNO...
When is an explosion really an explosion
A letter in this week’s issue of C&EN takes us to task on our word choices: I was disappointed to see the words “blast” and “explosion” used to describe the incidents at both Williams Cos....
A case study: Possible hydrogen fluoride exposure
How would you have handled this situation? Three chemists in a small laboratory were moving some old chemicals to a staging area prior to disposal. Many of the chemicals were simply unopened expired...
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Chemistry in Pictures
- GLASSWARE
C&EN readers Stuart and Martina Chambers, who…Source: Chemistry in Pictures | Published on 2014-09-11
- HYDROGEN-POWERED BOTTLE ROCKET
To simulate the main launch…Source: Chemistry in Pictures | Published on 2014-09-09
- CRYSTALLIZED
Formed over three days in methylene chloride and…Source: Chemistry in Pictures | Published on 2014-09-04
- GLASSWARE
C&EN readers Stuart and Martina Chambers, who…
The Watch Glass
- Lavoisier designed and used the equipment shown above for…Source: The Watch Glass | Published on 2014-09-10
- Top: At the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi, Lugar…Source: The Watch Glass | Published on 2014-09-03
- Tungsten evaporated crystals and 1cm3 cube (Alchemist-hp…Source: The Watch Glass | Published on 2014-08-29
- Lavoisier designed and used the equipment shown above for…
