• Question: Whats the worst thing that ever happened in your work with science?

    Asked by jericho to Irene, NULL, Chloe, Pierre, Uday on 7 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by luke smith, 285ntrd49, 726ntrd49.
    • Photo: Irene Regan

      Irene Regan answered on 7 Nov 2015:


      In college one one of my friend’s hair caught fire with the bunsen burner. We all laughed nervously. But luckily she was ok afterwards and her hair is still beautiful 🙂

    • Photo: NULL

      NULL answered on 8 Nov 2015:


      I accidentally used ten times more radioactive chemicals in my experiment than I should have, once. Radioactivity is invisible, so you can’t tell! The poisonous energy coming out of these chemicals could have done me a lot of damage (or made me into a superhero, I’m not sure).

      At the end of the experiment I realised what I’d done. Luckily I had shielded myself properly all the way through, but it was scary to think about it. And that stuff was expensive, I wasted 1000s and the experiment didn’t work…

    • Photo: Uday Bangavadi

      Uday Bangavadi answered on 9 Nov 2015:


      During my school , without knowing I accidental dropped a fairly big block of sodium into water. Which caused a mild explosion.. Gods grace non of us were injured.

    • Photo: Chloe Huseyin

      Chloe Huseyin answered on 10 Nov 2015:


      I haven’t really had anything terrible happen to my work, I guess the worst thing is the smell of the poo samples I have to work with sometimes. We did have a bat in the lab once but we caught it and set it free outside.

    • Photo: Pierre Casaubielh

      Pierre Casaubielh answered on 10 Nov 2015:


      Making medicine requires to a perfectly clean and closed container with bacteria and pollution: we call this a sterile environment… This is achieved with steam and high pressure in the container.
      The container had a set of bolds, some were not on their allocated place. When the pressure increased in the container, bolds were released light the cork of a bottle of champagne: my head was next to it, receiving the bold and steam on the face [details on it stop here].
      That’s a reason you need a white coat and safety gear (it is not for fashion)

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