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Old 15-02-2016, 05:23 PM
bugeater (Marty)
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Originally Posted by Shiraz View Post
please be careful of acetone vapour - even experts have trouble with it.

"Bob Morton rose rapidly in the ranks at the University of Melbourne, became Professor of Agricultural Chemistry at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, and then Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Adelaide in 1962. ..... In 1963 he was making acetone powder from yeast and the lab was full of acetone vapour. An imploding Buchner flask splashed acetone onto an electric motor and the resulting explosion caused his death and injured a technician. "
I remember being told organic chemists had a substantially reduced lifespan - not sure if it was actually true or not. But I thought it was due to inhaling solvents, not explosions
I just think of some of the stuff I handled in the lab in my science days - toxins, mutagens, cancer causing viruses.... ug.
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