first i would like to point out that this cute little icon of an erlenmeyer flask has too much fluid in it.
these things are for swirling
and reflux
and you should have them about a third full, i guess.
now.
why haven't i posted in a damn long time?
because now i have to use my underappreciated skills in front of people who want to destroy me.
i haven't slept in 3 days -- this is on school, not drugs. no drugs. and things are getting weird.
but anyway, there's a trip report here.
i did chloroform.
by accident.
see.
i needed to clean some sodium chloride plates for an IR spectrum
which is normally a very easy thing to do.
except the wash bottle had no chloroform in it.
so went and got a massive bottle of chloroform. ACS chloroform.
and i filled a beaker with it.
and then, very carefully, my existence itself focused on nothing except the spout of the beaker pouring the toxic, carcinogenic chemical VERY CAREFULLY into the polypropylene wash bottle, so that none of it would spill...
see, the bottle had a hole in it.
by the time i realized this there was a huge puddle of chloroform.
in the fume hood, but there's only so much a fume hood can do.
it took me about 3 seconds of standing in front of the fume hood to start feeling weird.
now
getting high off of anything during a lab is a bad, bad thing.
but still
yes, i got high off chloroform.
by accident.
it was weird.
um
i felt like i was gonna lose consciousness very quickly.
i said something slurred and incoherent, then as my vision started to blur i walked away and *boom* i was sober and getting yelled at for spilling chloroform.
oh
like i expected there would be no fucking bottom on the wash bottle.
anyway, i'm going to say that
as i suspected
chloroform is NOT FUN.
that's all.
these things are for swirling
and reflux
and you should have them about a third full, i guess.
now.
why haven't i posted in a damn long time?
because now i have to use my underappreciated skills in front of people who want to destroy me.
i haven't slept in 3 days -- this is on school, not drugs. no drugs. and things are getting weird.
but anyway, there's a trip report here.
i did chloroform.
by accident.
see.
i needed to clean some sodium chloride plates for an IR spectrum
which is normally a very easy thing to do.
except the wash bottle had no chloroform in it.
so went and got a massive bottle of chloroform. ACS chloroform.
and i filled a beaker with it.
and then, very carefully, my existence itself focused on nothing except the spout of the beaker pouring the toxic, carcinogenic chemical VERY CAREFULLY into the polypropylene wash bottle, so that none of it would spill...
see, the bottle had a hole in it.
by the time i realized this there was a huge puddle of chloroform.
in the fume hood, but there's only so much a fume hood can do.
it took me about 3 seconds of standing in front of the fume hood to start feeling weird.
now
getting high off of anything during a lab is a bad, bad thing.
but still
yes, i got high off chloroform.
by accident.
it was weird.
um
i felt like i was gonna lose consciousness very quickly.
i said something slurred and incoherent, then as my vision started to blur i walked away and *boom* i was sober and getting yelled at for spilling chloroform.
oh
like i expected there would be no fucking bottom on the wash bottle.
anyway, i'm going to say that
as i suspected
chloroform is NOT FUN.
that's all.
