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this sounds to me like a job for the students to be doing in class,not the Labbie!
The teacher should be getting the students to do this as part of the prac.

buy it already made.....its too dangerous to prepare.....its OH&S .........OR.....the teacher prepares the bromine water from the ampule
REMEMBER.........OH&S

at my school they do the junket prac in test tubes and I use a plastic test tube rack to hold the test tubes.
Matchstick

Final desicion comes down to the Principal and the OH&S officer.But as a TAS teacher they should already be aware of what to use and what not to use,surely they were CSIS trained,surely they have their own copies of the 'Bible' ,but go ask the higher beings cause basically if anything backfires ...

I have a student voltameter and it is so cute..with the other i recently bought new platnum electordes from haines 2 for $110. The only prob is the stopper is too small for my voltameter so i carfully pulled out the electrode and had our GA drill holes in stoppers that fitted.....woolah! Another pei...

why is it up to me to find desks and chairs for the prac teachers!!!! GGGGRRRRRRR
We have 5 of these people in the staffroom on top of the aready 9 teachers in there.
And of course mwah!
Surely the big HOD sould be finding these things not me.
This is not a very good way to start the week!

if you are a DET school ,you can find positions through the portal

Thanks for the tip about WD40.I just used it on the smaller scratches and they have faded slightly.................OH!...forgot to mention the rusted stainless steel sinks.I rinsed out reagent and dropper bottles with dilute acids and now the sinks are stained too....its such a shame that some thing...

as far as i knew there was nothing only dust,but could have been anything left over from the drilling,digging,cutting or it was 1 of the wooden drawers I use to store equipment in,All I can say is that the new rooms are not 'sceince prctical' ,the preproom is fitted out like a normal house hlod kitc...

at first sight I thought that my new preproom looked beautiful,bright spaces and airy..........now almost 1 year since they were done(november they were signed off) Im still waiting for them to come back to replace 1 bench because the screws have come throught the top of 1 bench,still waiting for ke...

throw them out and buy new conical flasks

yep ,you got it happy happy dance

hi there a now retired chemistry teacher showed me a quick calculation for your problem......... the amount of reagent as shown in the manual multiplied by the concentration neededmutiplird by 0.1mutiplied by volume needed in ml and diveded by 1000. this formula has become my bible and it works ever...

hi rainbowsky
I think you should be calling the manufacturer first before you do any improvements.They would be the best people for advice about the cabinet
Matchstick

please I need some serious help...........since the refurb of the labs I have not been able to keep up with demand, restock the new labs,prepare daily pracs,keeping the book storoom and the physics storeroon in order, sick bay,relieve in the front office,other duties as requires,BLAH BLAH BLAH.........

hello all
you have to be careful of the catalouge...the prices are different to smart buy......so for all my science equipment I go to science supply australia directly.They are the suppliers for officemax
matchstick

we have a class set of 10 and the precsion balance which is keep in the preproom for my usage only.I store our class set in the cupboard and as they are needed i put them on the trolley
M

geeze ladies......Is this your biggest winge about your school/staff that you can come up with? Im sure the people that say these "affectionate" names dont mean any malise or bullying.You should be grateful that they notice you there at all....after all they could be calling you a lot wors...

our pest control for all crepy crawlys is done each holidays,the end of each term
Far too dangerous to student with allergies and not to mention staff

we bought ours from scientriffic about 4 years ago and if we have had problems with them I have called scientrifficf for repairs and anything else to do with em.
They have always been very helpful to me
Matchstick