[curiouscat]

Oh and @Magician4, I have seen a bag of "mixed nuts" which says "may contain traces of nuts" on it!

You're joking man, aren't you ? pls. tell me that this is just a joke....

Just came across this snippet in a Undergrad Chem. Lab Manual:




"Don't Drink It"?? Really?

20 year olds, working in a Chemistry Lab  now have to be admonished not to drink Chemicals?! That too conc. H2SO4?!

Now tell me this is a joke. With Chemists ourselves behaving like that, can we even point fingers outside?

http://www.chem.wisc.edu/courses/116/OtherDoc/Labs/COD_Lab.pdf

[Archer]

I found this in A Manual of Pharmacology, published in 1917, on labelling of chemicals.

"Do not taste" is kind of a given in labs these days!

[curiouscat]

I found this in A Manual of Pharmacology, published in 1917, on labelling of chemicals.

"Do not taste" is kind of a given in labs these days!

As a mitigating factor, that one seems Pharmacology. Ergo, almost everything on his shelf was meant to be "tasted"; in some way by someone at some dilution.

[Dan]

Haha, "taste cautiously".

[magician4]

in those days, description of "taste" of a material was SOP in chemistry and thatlike

... and sometimes even lead to tragic results: remember C.W.Scheele, in my opinion the most unfortunate guy in chemistry*⁾: he was found dead with a very funny look on his face at the workbench ...
... that had a collection of (as we know today: highly poisenous) substances on it, he had tasted for scientific reasons

regards

Ingo

*⁾
Scheele did discover (amongst other substances) several elements including oxygen, none of which he was credited for: he didn't find a publisher to accept his scientific papers in time

[lrhea2]

Johnny was a chemist's son
But Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H₂0
Was H₂SO₄

[curiouscat]

in those days, description of "taste" of a material was SOP in chemistry and thatlike

Smell too. The first thing we were taught to do for qualitative identification lab was to report smell.