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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember in high school we had to wash beakers with sulfuric acid to make sure there weren’t any traces of heavy metals left.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

You should have used lighter metals instead.

[–] painfulasterisk 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At my high school, teachers always said that there's a biological hazard in the lab (they used the same lab for chemistry, physics, and biology), hence no laboratory class/experience. But that exact lab/room was available and used for teaching classes such as math, history, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean they spilled something and were too scared to clean it up??

[–] painfulasterisk 11 points 1 year ago

If I try to guess, it was just a ridiculous excuse instead of saying, we aren't adequately equipped to manage a laboratory and will not want to be liable if an accident happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was that their subtle way of saying children are dangerous?

[–] painfulasterisk 2 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest, even freshmen at university level behave like kids in a lab.