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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I was asking because I've never seen a fume hood in a school.
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All of the WA high schools I have worked in (both public and private) have had at least 1 fume hood but more usually 2, one in the techs prep room and one in a dedicated chem lab. In fact the last public school I worked at was well designed with two fume hoods in the techs prep room each backing onto seperate classrooms. They had double sided access so no one was ever waiting to use them. I am not sure how it is done in other states but you could not complete the upper school chemistry curriculum over here without a fume hood as many of the pracs involve nasties that could not be used. In year 11 they must know how to make Cl2, SO2, H2S, NO2 etc. With the 12's we use a lot of organics, toluene etc so they are a must have item.
Mark