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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DON'T MOUTH THE PIPET!!!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Sad pipet noises

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Explanation? Are these guys huffing ether or something?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Basically it took many years before someone developed something that could be run with a trigger or button. Before that you used a vacuum (your mouth) to pull liquid into a pipette. Heard an older chemistry professor talk about a colleague who years before swallowed a salmonella sample by accident. A lot of people surely got hurt this way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not a scientist but I'm guessing they are siphoning some chemical by sucking up a small amount in the tube to transfer it to another container

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Aww, I thought they were blowing bubbles. Looked like fun.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Look how long their fancy straws are! I bet they keep chemicals a safe distance away from possible ingestion!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm wondering if a crazy straw was tested...for safety

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

lol lol let me suck up this salmonella sample real fast

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Uh, yeah, suck it, pipet boy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought they were sipping pee to test for diabetes 😋😌

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Pipettecore ftw!?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The silliest of straws.