I had a post-doc accidentally waste an entire tank of nitrogen gas simply because they forgot to turn it off before leaving the lab for the night. I obliterated a round-bottom flask by accidentally touching it with a probe sonicator, causing chemicals to splatter inside the entire sonication chamber. I also destroyed a mechanical pipette by trying to clean it with acetone, which is pretty dumb for someone doing plastics polymer research. Point is, messing up in the lab is just a part of learning to work in the lab. Just don't break an expensive instrument like an HPLC or an NMR and you'll be okay.
I had a lab where I had to do distillation at the end and the chemicals inside the solvent were corrosive, I can not remember them exactly. Anyway, after 10 minutes of the good distillation, the flasks suddenly blew up violently and the chemicals spilled all over the bench and my coat. I end up okay but it was unexpected and all my work was wasted.
I had a post-doc accidentally waste an entire tank of nitrogen gas simply because they forgot to turn it off before leaving the lab for the night. I obliterated a round-bottom flask by accidentally touching it with a probe sonicator, causing chemicals to splatter inside the entire sonication chamber. I also destroyed a mechanical pipette by trying to clean it with acetone, which is pretty dumb for someone doing plastics polymer research. Point is, messing up in the lab is just a part of learning to work in the lab. Just don't break an expensive instrument like an HPLC or an NMR and you'll be okay.
I had a lab where I had to do distillation at the end and the chemicals inside the solvent were corrosive, I can not remember them exactly. Anyway, after 10 minutes of the good distillation, the flasks suddenly blew up violently and the chemicals spilled all over the bench and my coat. I end up okay but it was unexpected and all my work was wasted.
cute.