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the pasta - love that idea and the plastic animals -pitty i got rid of all the ones i had at home a few months back the kids will love the lollies idea - might work on that one for the good kids :) great ideas people we use nuts,bolts and screws also to start wtih then have the bottled speciments an...

ok dont want to be rude but please read the entry i made about pming me your address not putting it in this thread.

Done - on its way to you as i type

no they do not - we looked at them but of course need it to print in 3 colours - would be great if they did would make label making easy -lol

No we did not have any in our classrooms - we are only 9 years old as a school. the science department brought their own and i put them up. we got teh centre feed ones that way less chance of the paper coming out thru missfeed- you know when the paper folded ones get stuck teh kids pull the paper an...

sounds good - maybe you can arraange to get it on approval?
I use access myself i find it easy and it works for us:)

Every 5 years

and thanks for the reply to my question

For those of us who do not have Chemwatch - doyou need msds's for all chemicals or just the haz and dangerous ones? I just contacted a company o brought some buffer tablets from to request the msds's for teh items - they have come back with theya re not haradous there fore a msds is not required - a...

vlclabbie - is "the Laboratory" even still in print - i thought it was out of print!

When you use a microwave at home you vent the bag/container so "explosions" do not take place by allowing the steam to escape - would be the same thing. BUt you shoudl not vent the bags if youa re using them to sterilse bacterial plates - thus why i dont agree with personally using a micro...

When you cook or heat up or even defrost in a microwave you generally always have a hole/ vent inthe bag or container so steam can escape donthave it and you get explosion - will be the same for the plates and the oven bag - another reason i can not see microwaving being a safe method of sterilization

When did microwaving plates become and acceptable practice to kill the yukkies?

Last time i chcecked (admit it was 5 years back) it was still considered that microwaving did not kill off everything thus was not acceptable as a method of sterilaization

thanks Fran

the practical where the students rub the "stuff" over their hands , then goes and washes the same , coem and view them under the light to see how well they cleaned their hand s- what is it called? where do you get the "stuff" from and is it a UV light or a fluro that is used? che...

thanks allthe same found the answer - it is min 11.4L/Min for eye wash and 75.7L/Min shower

have a question - the eye wash stations - is there a set pressure the water shoudl be ocmoing out ?
does it matter if it is a shower/eyewash set or a single eye wash?
i do not have access to australian standards and hoping soem one out in labbie world might have the know
cheers

i got that apron and the other one the white one the says science does not suck -lol . the kids love them.

sorry realise this is an old thread but i was reading it with intrest as the teachers here have decided to go back to flame tests since i suggested we try the soaking match sticks in the soln and then burn those - for those who soak their match sticks in the solution then burn what molarity do you s...

ohh i got a visual of that Andrew - love it

lol never too late for some one :) what we did this year was take video footage and still pictures of the experiment being preformed by the capable labbie (me) so it can be used in a presentation. As we have only one fume cupboard, two full classes on at the same time and the students are so slow wo...