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DON’T MOUTH THE PIPET!!!

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Sad pipet noises

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Explanation? Are these guys huffing ether or something?

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87 points

They pipette by mouth, which is not very safe.

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but how are we supposed to accidentally discover artificial sweeteners?

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By distilling piss from diabetic people? Idk I’m not a scientist i just like the memes

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They are using their mouths to suck liquids into pipettes. It was an old and dangerous lab technique.

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Then how are we supposed to do that?

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Use a rubber bulb on the end of the pipette. That way your cartel members lab techs are safe.

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I am a bit concerned everyone is just mentioning the squeeze rubber ball thing, maybe because its time appropriate for the images.

But in modern times people should use something like this https://www.integra-biosciences.com/global/en/pipette-controllers/pipetboy-acu-2

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rubber bulb. its a bit like the end of an eye dropper if you ever used the old fashioned kind. The modern ones are actually sorta complex where you can let go and the liquid will stay inside and you press an area near the kneck which will release the vacum. back in those days it was just a bulb and a bit frustrating to use so they did this dangerous technique.

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With a squeezy rubber bulb thingy.

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Basically it took many years before someone developed something that could be run with a trigger or button. Before that you used a vacuum (your mouth) to pull liquid into a pipette. Heard an older chemistry professor talk about a colleague who years before swallowed a salmonella sample by accident. A lot of people surely got hurt this way.

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12 points

not a scientist but I’m guessing they are siphoning some chemical by sucking up a small amount in the tube to transfer it to another container

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9 points

Aww, I thought they were blowing bubbles. Looked like fun.

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33 points

Look how long their fancy straws are! I bet they keep chemicals a safe distance away from possible ingestion!

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I’m wondering if a crazy straw was tested…for safety

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lol lol let me suck up this salmonella sample real fast

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Uh, yeah, suck it, pipet boy.

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