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Analyzing mixtures of organic compounds Obtaining supplies from chemical supply room into a diminutive test tube instead of only one. And woe to the one who makes a wee slip involving the algebra of a calculus problem! Fire burn. Ask any of us the implications of fire and well show you our hands . , , blistered from close contact with a piece of hot glass, scalded by freshly boiled nitric acid, seared by a devilish wing-tip burner. Cauldron bubble. Endless hours of waiting for an Or- ganic cauldron to bubble and reflex. And the grief and dismay as a “Qual” precipitable which “must not be over- looked” bubbles merrily away! The friction from all this witches’ brew is released in the Eastman Lounge, where we mutter and sputter about “Quals” and “Quants” at kings and queens. Yet underneath all our finagling, card-playing, and Bob-and-Ray type dialogues are serious, enthusiastic in- dividuals who woudn’t trade their crucibles for any card. Just ask any chemist! Draining a fractional still Chemical Analysts at Work Twenty-one
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RAYMOND B1EHLER EDWIN HEN RICK HOMER IMES RALPH T. VAN PEURSEN Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble, Shakespeare’s prophetic eye mirrored the life of the Chemistry students. Toil. Ask any of us the meaning of the word “toil” and we will not only define it, but give you a few choice ex- amples , . . waiting for two hours in Quantitative Analysis for a crucible to ignite to constant weight, spending weeks chasing an unkown through group St in Organic only to find that it belongs in group S2, whirling test tubes around in a centrifuge until we feel our own brains spinning, making capillary tubes; reflecting junk and distilling junk Trouble comes next—double trouble, even triple trouble —especially when three samples of an unknown arc run into a slightly dirty beaker , . . or when careless moist fingerprints disturb the weight of hygroscopic salts. Disaster strikes when a student of “Quant measures two drops of hydrochloric acid Operating the Spedograph and plotting curves PATRICA LLOYD T wertty
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