Seven Precepts of the Student Laboratory - Journal of Chemical

Seven tongue-in-cheek rules for the student laboratory. Keywords (Audience):. High School / Introductory Chemistry. Keywords (Feature):. Chem Gems ...
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Seven Precepts of the Student Laboratory Original Fmm 1. Horseplay belongs in a corral.

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Clean equipment -+ better results.

Translation You don't get a second chance to grow an eye. 2. The soap industry didn't reach its present size becsuse its products weren't useful.

3.TYon can't use equipment from your desk 3. unless you can find it.

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where Od = desk orderliness C. = speed of completing lab work Fb = h ~ a k a g efines If you need a chemical from the stock shelf, 4. 99.47 ( 1 0 . 0 4 % ) of all laboratory motion "Take Mohammed to the Momtain." follows the auestion. "Who took the silver bromide?" If the stock hottle is low-TATTLE! 5. Your neighbor may be slower than you, but he'll need some pretty soon. .hesides you need another 20 g for proc. 6 ( b ) . "...in r a r r of w d m t . ." Rule* 2re not l e p l 0. Acid, spilled on the skin, is not neutralized statutrr, therefore you mn iollos them by ail of vitriol. without i~nirirrgingon your legnl right* ne a citizen. Many previous chemiats have had their 7. The lab book did not say, ". . .add 10 ml surfaceanatomy altered so that you could water to 25 g sodium metal in B small read what to do. beaker."

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GENEDOTY HILL~BORO UNIONHIGHSCHOOL HILLSBORO, OREGON

Volume 37, Number 3, March 1960

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