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>>8596353
how do you fuck up that badly?

A guy in my year had a super shit habit of smelling beakers to work out if it was water or something else. One time it was c. sulphuric and he took a big whiff of it. He nearly passed out then and there, ran out to the toilet and threw up. He's done something similar with ammonia. He graduated top 5 in my year and is now doing a phd though because he's a tryhard "liveathome" type who has no social life.

>>8596371
literally was helping my parents with their pool, wasn't even thinking while mixing pool chemicals till it started bubbling and I caught a wiff of chlorine. Thank fuck I ran out of there quick till the reaction was done.

Working in a chem lab one summer and I cracked the seal on an ammonia bottle, it took my breathe away and I nearly dropped the entire thing on the floor.

Took a bunch of volts through my hand when testing ESR on some capacitors.

>>8596371
>that level of autism

the only time my lab coat was really useful was when i was and undergrad student and made fun of a phd student, whom i was good friends with.
he chased me around the lab for ten minutes with a spray bottle of water.

>>8596353

>Taking chem for physicists
>Cool reaction where some shit-potassium-chloride-thingy and iron-hexa-turbo-mongoloid mix changes color
>I wanna see better what's going on
>Put head just above the container
>Coughing and tearing up for one hour

Great times

If it helps OP, the levels at which chlorine gas causes physical distress are conveniently quite a lot lower than the levels that actually start harming you.

>>8596373
>Almost killed myself
Yeah, no.

>General Biology Lab
>Dropped fungus culture on my shoes
>Just rubbed it off and said whatever
>Lost two toenails a few weeks later before connecting the pieces
I'm surprised I haven't spilled any other biological agents yet

>>8596371
>tryhard
I think the word you're looking for is "successful"

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>>8596353

My friend almost needed a liver transplant after mig welding next to some brake cleaner - he accidently created phosgene gas - increadibly nasty stuff.

Here is an article about a dude who did the same thing. Fucking Phosgene.

http://www.brewracingframes.com/safety-alert-brake-cleaner--phosgene-gas.html