Wednesday, July 28, 2010

A typical day at work

Really. This is how my day usually goes. The distillation apparatus gets sucked dry while I'm eating lunch and .... KABOOOMM!!

5 comments:

Heather said...

I only lit the Enzone (I think that's what it was called) evap test on fire twice. I thought that was pretty good, considering. :P

terry said...

isn't that the test that involves ether? i remember that stuff from high school chem lab - if you even blink your eyes, it bursts into flames.

Heather said...

No, it was something they made at Finley. Some kind of orange liquid that you had to evaporate down on the hot plate before the next step. I don't remember what was in it, but it was highly flammable. Probably good they don't run that test at the Phoenix lab anymore. ;)

terry said...

it must've been the CS2 coming off the Enzone then. that stuff is pretty flammable too.

Heather said...

Yup, that was it! Ah, the good ol' days. ;)