Tales of the Lab Partner!

Well, I promised to post about my lab partner so here goes.

First off, I'll have you know that if we'd been working with anything stronger, I most likely wouldn't be able to type.

We were doing titrations today... not strong acids/bases (that's next week) but finding out the hardness of a water sample. Not a very hard lab. In short, titration involves putting a liquid in a very long tube with a removable narrow tip (it's called a buret) and dripping it down into a beaker. Think of a long, skinny glass funnel where you have a valve you can use to control the flow.

So my lab partner--this is the girl who after taking an exam where half the points involved electron cloud configuration, asked what an electron cloud was--decided that it wasn't dripping fast enough and pulled the bottom of the thing OFF. While I was holding the beaker below it. Not "oops, I slipped" but "oh, this is harmless and doesn't smell absolutely horrible. And it's dripping sooo slowly..."

We're working with slightly stronger acids next week. Save me.

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I'm here at Pat's. The dogs and kitties are very happy to see me, as is my aunt.