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Thankyou Lorrae, it came through beautifully.
Much Appreciated Trish.

Hello Friends, I am currently doing Lab Skills III and as part of my module "Prepare practical lessons", I need to obtain a copy of a risk assessment from Risk Assess. My school or schools close by do not use riskassess, so I was wondering if someone who has access to this wonderful site c...

We use coloured match sticks as well.
Just soak them for 1 min in food colour lay on paper towel over night to dry. I just have a tub of each colour and when I notice getting down just make some more.
Cheap and easy.
Cheers Trish

Hi everyone,
Recently someone posted a name of a web site that sells second hand text books, can't find it!!! (Typical)
I need to purchase Conquering Chemistry Prelim to restock our numbers... Need 11.
Any ideas or suggestion on getting these cheap will be appreciated
Cheers Trish.

I have 3 fume hoods, one in a lab, one in a preproom(I Have 3 preprooms) and the third in the other preproom which opens both prep and adjoining lab. we have 1000 students and apart from me they hardly get used. I think you need one in the preproom as you will use it more than anyone. Go see your WH...

I am doing it now, I am enjoying it... Some stuff I already know through work, other stuff has been interesting. I do it online, log into a moodle site. It's been great as I can do some when it's quiet at work or at home. I have to travel to Armidale 2 times a semester. And it's hands on work. My te...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm going plant shopping this arvo and going to try and source some of your suggestions
Thankyou, Trish.

Hi I need suggestions on an alternate plant than geranium or mint to do this experiment.
One that is varigated would be ideal...
My geranium plants are not varigated and the teachers want varigated, and I can't seem to purchase a plant to suit.
PLEASE HELP!!!
Trish.

I have it, send me your mail address and I will send it off to you this afternoon.
Trish

Hi Friends, recently we tried to do digestion with various food samples, and we used 2M sulfuric acid. then left for a couple of days. This didn't work all it seemed to do is cook the food, (we tried raw meat and vege's). Does anyone do a similar prac, and if you don't mind sharing what acid(solutio...

Is this a private school thing?? As i have never heard of anything like this working in a DEC school....
cheers Trish.

Sorry about the heading, was in the middle of writing an SOP for sodium when I seen the show and jumped on to chemtalk...
Talk about having work on the brain...
Trish

Hi, did you see A current affair on Monday 5th March, about those poor kids who were told to hold dry ice in their bare hands by that casual teacher.. And they made a competition out of it!!! :mad: I was shocked, and just shook my head. it is also written on the ninemsn page... Why do some teachers...

Hi, did you see A current affair on Monday 5th March, about those poor kids who were told to hold dry ice in their bare hands by that casual teacher.. And they made a competition out of it!!! :mad: I was shocked, and just shook my head. it is also written on the ninemsn page... Why do some teachers ...

Hi Curie, You can directly ask chemwatch this question to get an accurate answer, email icon is at top of the webpage. I thought that all chemicals had to have a MSDS supplied, its law.I always type in supplier in chem watch too.Sometimes I get it. And when I went to chemwatch training "Josh&qu...

I don't know about the glow sticks, but for my lipstick recipe we use crayons for the colouring, kid safe ones.
Trish

I have enrolled to start this course starting next week, I was wondering if anyone else is doing it too??
And could those who have already done this (J from Dorrigo) could give some advise on electives. eg, what worked well for school Lab Tech's???
Thanks Trish

Ilona, I recently did the chemgold course and Josh the presenter said that the government has not officially signed off on the labels yet, so they haven't changed it but we will notice once they are officially in. As far as chemgold has been told it could take years, but other things like risk asses...

If I don't read it here, sometimes I get it from the OHS (WHS now i think)committee at my school. But 9 times out of 10 it's from here. I think people who are closer to the city's have more access to training days with experts who know what will happen or the right way to do things, we could go, but...

If its for the whole school, definetley mention storage.. I cringe when I visit other faculty's and see how they store chemicals in their staffrooms. If we have to store metho etc in flammable cupboards, why does the others get away with it. Also Everything labeled and colour coded (green dotsetc) i...