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Hi everyone! Just noticed some jobs advertised if you're interested from teachers.on.net Science Laboratory Assistant Closing date: October 27, 2015 Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood Pagewood, NSW - Sydney Laboratory Technician Closing date: October 24, 2015 Domremy College Five Dock, NSW - Sydne...

I just did mine and it took about 5 minutes for 170 chemicals. This is how I did it: - Manifest folder - Click folder of chemicals - Show all the chemicals on one page and select them all with a tick - Click Report Generator - Tick Selected - Choose report type in new window (I used the one called M...

I bought one from Scientrifric for about $400. It's reverse osmosis and pretty slow but works well if you don't need to fill up water bottles quickly. It's under the sink and has a little tap to make the water flow. Had it for about 6 months and no issues. We don't use a lot of deionised water though.

A big thank you to Margaret and the ladies that put the conference together! It was such a wonderful day and I learnt so much!!! Great to meet fellow labbies and the people representing the companies that we deal with. =)

That's great news!

Not so good about the limited emoticon use

I have one lab that has an adjustable bench height with sink which is used for one student (non-wheelchair reasons). Apparently in the next building stage we are getting a chem lab with an adjustable fume cupboard????

I was wondering why I bought so much flour this term!!! I did send an email to the faculty about altering certain pracs to suit the budget and what we have in stock and my HT told me some teachers didn't like that... I found the DNA extraction prac for Year 10 annoying to follow and it took so long ...

Last year, I wanted to use up some old stock and that didn't work with the sugar. Then we filled a 150ml beaker about 3/4 of the way up with sugar and poured about 50ml of new conc acid to it. It took a little while to start working and then it shot up. I still have it on show since I don't know wha...

You can also click and drag the chemical into the folder after searching for it.

Our yr 11 Bio class went out to our garden and found some weeds to cover with foil/black garbage bag and they said it worked well.

Chemwatch is very useful. However, since the glitch a few weeks ago, some of my chemicals and quantities were changed/added out of nowhere. Luckily, I printed out a hard copy before that happened. But now I have to go through and check everything again...

I'll have to remember that tip for next time! I've only used emery paper on them as I didn't know how to remove the copper either. Thanks!

We used water crackers last term.