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I was taken aback yesterday and I'm grateful for your help. I explained this to the teacher & my Head Teacher and the crystals were all returned to the prep room! Phew.
Thanks

Exactly I feel the same as you!

And I keep hearing that "at my last school" thing and it is frustrating so thanks for your reply Merilyn!

Appreciate your help.

Hello everyone, I'd like your help please. We have a new teacher and she wanted to make borax crystals with the whole class (horror!) She said she always did it at her last school! I explained it is Teacher only and may damage fertility etc and she made copper sulfate and alum potassium sulfate ones...

Thanks heaps for your help.
The Librarian wants to enter a crystal growing competition with other Librarians and was looking for something a little different. She doesn't want to use food colouring or dye. I have passed on safety information for Mohr's Salt crystals to her.
Thanks all.

Thanks Elizabeth.

Hi,
Our librarian wants to grow some green crystals and I wondered if anyone has any ideas on what to use. Is copper carbonate a contender do you think, or too expensive?
TIA.

Hi,
My Biology teacher has asked if his year 9 students can make slides using the mould from bread.
Is this allowed do you know?

Hi,
I am doing the Chemical Register and someone asked me if it is ok to store interior paint sample pots in a compactor on metal shelves. Other than checking the SDS storage, I'm not sure who to ask. Any ideas? Thanks.

Thanks Kate

Thanks heaps Merilyn1 and bigmack, this has been very helpful.
Soozle.
P.s I'm sorry if I commented in the wrong place, not sure of my way round here yet!

Good luck Soozle . Only hint I can give you if you are using Chemwatch is make sure the "Vender" Button is selected otherwise you get the generic "Gold SDS's" Also search with the manufacture's name first . EG "Diggers Methylated spirit" will find exactly that whereas ...

Hi, I am about to undertake printing the SDS for the whole school. Do you have any advice regarding finding SDS as I have just spent hours hunting on Chemwatch - some were dated 2011 so out of date. I also searched online as there are things such as dishwashing liquid and handwash but I can't find t...

I've printed out the full SDS for all of the chemicals we have, whether they have signal words or not. Just being sure to be sure.... I've also saved a copy of the PDF into a folder on the staff drive for ease of access for all staff. By searching online I've located an SDS for everything we have h...

Thanks Mel

Hi,
do you know who has a good supply of posters for our new refurbished labs please?

Hi, I have found that rubber teats degrade on certain dropper bottles depending on the chemical. I was wondering where I can check whether it's ok to use plastic stuhl bottles instead to avoid this. I looked on CSIS but couldn't find any storage on individual chemicals. Is there anywhere you know of...

Thanks Elizabeth that's great.

I have just watched the demo videos and it seems quite an easy prac for the students, it would take a little time to source everything and make the medium. Here are the links: How best to use this in the classroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEbGnJnVuLI How to prepare the growth medium: http://w...

Hi, I work in a High School and a teacher has asked if I can get together the chemicals for this prac. The chemicals required are Kinetin, Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium, plain Agar and Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate (Milton sterilising tablet). As they are not included in CSIS they have no age classi...