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Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit
    #19160468 - 11/19/13 04:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Now that I've been working in the lab for close to 2 months, I've noticed a lot of chemicals smell god awful. They don't smell noxious like ammonia, bleach, naphtha, or anything like that. They just smell like shit.

Here is my list, if you have any, feel free to share:

Tryptone
LB media
Agarose plates poured with LB
DMSO
Sodium borohydrate
Liver infusion
Lysed E. coli cultures (almost made me gag)


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Gumby]
    #19160480 - 11/19/13 04:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

What would you compare each of these smells too? Or did you literally mean they smell like shit?


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
    #19160492 - 11/19/13 04:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Damn. Luckily isopropyl alcohol is the nastiest stuff I work with in my lab. It gives me a headache.


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Whitewater]
    #19160501 - 11/19/13 04:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Formaldehyde.


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...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: LuSiD enthusiast] * 1
    #19160611 - 11/19/13 04:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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LuSiD enthusiast said:
What would you compare each of these smells too? Or did you literally mean they smell like shit?




Tryptone- a mix of moldy bread a basement
LB media- tryptone but there's a hint of old shoes
Agarose plates poured with LB- LB media but just worse somehow, the smell actually goes though gloves
DMSO- like garlic and piss
Sodium borohydrate- body odor and cookies, more like body odor
Liver infusion- hard to describe really, like something really old
Lysed E. coli cultures (almost made me gag)- almost indescribable. Like something rotten but
also like rotting death

And yeah, badchad formaldehyde is rough. Ever had it fix the cells in your nose? I lost most of my sense of smell for about 2 days.


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Gumby]
    #19160684 - 11/19/13 05:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Concentrated cactus tea
Butyric acid
Phosphines

I happen to really like the smell of styrene and gasoline though


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Gumby]
    #19160774 - 11/19/13 05:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Dude.  When someone gets done working in the anaerobe hood in the Micro lab  :puke:

We have these "test" type things that we get in from NY to show our Micro labs are proficient in identifying certain species.  We always tend to keep them longer than actual patients, but dear god when we get a Proteus spp.  Bleck.

But xylene....oh yes, I love xylene  :hahyeahwoo:


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Normal Flora]
    #19160806 - 11/19/13 05:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

the smell after the machine is done sterilising bio-medical waste is terrific....


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Synth Ethics]
    #19160816 - 11/19/13 05:30 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Butyric acid!


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Synth Ethics]
    #19160825 - 11/19/13 05:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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the smell after the machine is done sterilising bio-medical waste is terrific....




YES THIS! Autocalved biohazard waste. That one is fucking horrible.


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Gumby]
    #19160886 - 11/19/13 05:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Gumby,

This is completely natural. For me there was a period of repulsion, followed by adaptation followed by appreciation. Now when I walk into the lab in the morning and smell freshly autoclaved LB broth, betamercaptoethanol or any other thing I used to think smelled nasty, I get the warm fuzzy feeling like I am coming home.

Fuck ya, science rocks!


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: Gumby]
    #19160888 - 11/19/13 05:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Gumby said:
Now that I've been working in the lab for close to 2 months, I've noticed a lot of chemicals smell god awful. They don't smell noxious like ammonia, bleach, naphtha, or anything like that. They just smell like shit.

Here is my list, if you have any, feel free to share:

Tryptone
LB media
Agarose plates poured with LB
DMSO
Sodium borohydrate
Liver infusion
Lysed E. coli cultures (almost made me gag)




Ever gotten a whiff of thionyl chloride? I caught the scent of some nasty-smelling shit in my ochem lab (I think tryptone was one of them, actually) but when they trotted out that thionyl chloride my life was changed forever. I didn't know smells could be that bad.


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: GoldenEye]
    #19161025 - 11/19/13 06:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Butyric acid!



I remember my high school chemistry lab smelling like wine puke after the class before us tried to make pineapple scent.


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Re: Chemicals/science stuff that smell like shit [Re: pslyke]
    #19161195 - 11/19/13 06:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah that's what bosslady said. She described the smell of agar LB plates as "music to my nose." Apparently I'll get used to it.


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