Labwork I have done in my first month as a PhD student

[kaberett]

(1) Learned to wash beakers
(2) Washed most (but not all) of my own personal beakers
(3) Been trained to use HF

...

One of these things is not like the others.

Also "learned to top up the acid stills", but that sounds like a bigger deal than it actually is so I'm leaving it off. ;)

Comments

[sorrillia]

You guys use vinyl gloves for it? Interesting; no one in our department uses those, so they just tell us double nitrile, and if you want to be extra paranoid, a pair of non-disposable neoprene gloves over those.

[kaberett]

Julie sez no point in double nitrile, it'll just go straight through.