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Hi all Just wondering if anyone knows a good supplier for eye's in Victoria. We used to be able to order them in from a butcher at Preston Market but they won't do it anymore. I know I can get them from Southern Biological but they charge 5 times as much. Also does anyone dissect eye's apart from bu...

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Here is a link for the vic deecd list of banned chemicals
http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary ... micals.pdf

It's a one day course for the testing. I'm not qualified to actually fix anything if it fails the testing but I can test it.

When I first started doing the testing I stipulated that the two jobs would remain seperate and they were fine with that, unfortunantely this was the previous administration who were far more honerable and honest, and silly me I never got anything in writing. Thanks Sunray, sadly this is just one ev...

I am in a bit of a unique situation at the moment. I am employed at my school as 0.8 so I work 4 days a week, and for the last few years I have also done the electrical tagging and testing for the school. This was seperate from my lab tech duties, I only did it on my day off and I was paid by school...

Hi all, This question is mostly directed to the Victorian lab techs, although I’m not sure how many are active on here. With the new agreement and pay level ranges that came into effect towards the end of last year I was transferred over to ES 1 Range 1 (The lowest range obviously) I was told...

Hi all,
Can someone tell me how I should go about cutting and smoothing the edges of glass tubing with a diameter of 7mm, simply and safely? It's not something I've ever had to do before.
Thanks

Hi all, I have a teacher here who wants to do an experiment to stain onion root that she vaguely remembers doing when she was in high school. Does anyone have a method of this experiment I could get a hold of? And any idea where I can acquire onion root? Is it easiest just to take a regular onion, s...

I've had a teacher here request I get him some radioactive sources(alpha, beta, gamma). Having never had dealt with something like this before I'm wondering if anyone else has. I'm looking for any information such as - where to buy sources, approx costing, amounts I should be getting, how to store/h...

Just a technical question

I need to make up 500ml of 0.0125M Iodine,I solution. I've been told I need to disolve the iodine in Potassium Iodide, but I don't know the strength of the KI solution I need. Can anyone tell me how to work that out?

Hello all,
Just wondering how others dispose of their broken glassware once the sharps bin is full?
Thanks