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After dissections the teachers like to squirt diluted disinfectant on benches and give them a wipe down. Usually I will dilute some cheap generic brand 1:10 and fill a spray bottle. On printing out a new GHS label I discovered that it states "causes skin + serious eye irritations and suspected ...

I have two and a half boxes of videos spanning a diverse range of science topics suitable for years 7-12. Does anybody want them before they go to the op shop. Currently housed at Doonside High School , I commute from the Blue Mountains and so can drop them anywhere inbetween

Thanks for that advice, it was what I suspected would be the appropriate course of action - even though it does not allow for any deleterious effects of exposure to the combination of chemical ingredients. As it turns out Ammonium nitate 32% (Chemwatch MSDS) = orange dot. I shall tell the HOD.

We sometimes use a pelleted slow release fertiliser for a solubilty comparison prac. Each group of students gets a small amount in a specimen container. My question is what user code should be given to products like this that are not listed in the CSIS (neither is it in the RiskAssess database)? Che...

Hope eveyone in labbie land has had a nice break. Now back to business. a teacher has ordered metal cleaner eg: brasso for senior science prac. I was told last term that metal cleaners have been banned from schools , can anyone confirm this? How would I go about finding this out. Thanks in anticipat...

I have been trying to embed wire into capillary tubing by heating glass with flame. I can fire polish ends of glass without problem but as soon as wire is inserted the glass cracks. I have tried preheating the glass without success. I know innoculating loops are relatively cheap but we have all mate...

Does anybody out there know where to get GHS sticky labels for reagent bottles? Can't find them anywhere.

We have about 20 of these things in our store, they have been here for longer than the staff and I'm assuming that they were part of a physics prac. Solid brass, 5 x 5 x 2cm. Central hole 13mm in diam. running from top to bottom, holes on all 4 sides -2 of which accomodate screws that when turned de...

How do I register for the PD day 17/09? Ive gone to the ASET website but cant find anything.

A large number of our old senior microscopes have a brown translucent coating over the 40x objectives which I can not : remove . Does anyone have suggestions other than windex or ethanol or is it possible to buy only the objectives to replace them ?

:coffee: A teacher ordered 15cm of Nichrome wire per student to construct an element. Students were to coil wire into a spring shape , attach alligator clips to either end suspend it in a 50ml beaker of water and hook up to transformer (DC 12 volts) and a lamp. Lamp came on but no change in water te...

I am very new to this forum so I hope I'm going about this the right way. Could you please send me the details re the data logger course

Regards

Melissa