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We use excel for our Where Is It? book. I have used Access in the past and it wouldn't be any better than Excel for this list. I have it saved in the Science Staff drive and I print up a copy each year for the staffroom. Although that said, most of the staff still come and ask me where things are in...

Thanks guys, and welcome back to everyone!!! Hope you all have an amazing year!

Hey fibreweb, maybe you could sell it off to make up the budget shortfalls!

My HT just completed this prac with his year 11/12 class. Although the prac he used didn't ask for conc. HCl at all, just water. After assessing the risks of using the chemical with this particular class, he implemented safety controls to reduce the risk to low and went ahead with the prac as writte...

Hi, we are looking at purchasing ours from Southern Biological. Similar setup cost to Stemreactor from the looks of things... any suggestions about the best suppliers for these?

Mine is going well, had my mid year review last term and passed with flying colours!

Don't forget to put down networking with other labbies. I'm sure Chemtalk counts for that one!!!

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Woohoo! Thank you Westlab, it's soooo good to have Chemtalk back up and running.

I'm with you on that one, what are they hoping to learn and/or achieve by making it?
We have said no to students in the past for this reason.

Yes, we still do it here but only as a demo in the fume hood. It is a high risk prac, so our head teacher decides on a case by case basis whether he will approve the class teacher to conduct it or not.

We get ours from the local abattoirs, they kindly supply them to us free of charge :) You could also try a friendly butcher, although ours don't get bulls eyes in but they will supply pigs eyes if we are desparate enough to use them. We use bulls eyes because of the size, so much easier than pigs or...

Looking great fibreweb! Happy days!!!

I was worried that the plastic ones would melt, now to find some wooden ones that have a strong spring! Sadly my teachers realy dislike the metal ones - our students tended to drop them a lot.

Thanks everyone for the info

Thanks Merilyn, I'll check them out.

Our lovely timber test tube holders are slowly being burnt away, and we need to replace them. We have some of the metal spring ones but none of the teachers are very keen on them. We purchased some new timber ones a couple of years ago but the springs were very weak and so they haven't lasted long a...

Good luck Julie! Enjoy the move to warmer and sunnier climes!!

Hi everyone, I had a great break too! Not much done, just removed one more shade of green from my very small kitchen and sorted out my pantry. Back to work Sunday afternoon for day 1 of the Laughter and Wellbeing Conference run by our local SRG and then yesterday was a full day there. It was great! ...

According to my guru aka head teacher, any straight chain hydrocarbon will do the job.

Good luck!

Sadly I'm way too happy exactly where I am!
And I'm sure I'll be at the dentist that day anyway!

I've put down learning pracs for the new curriculum and keeping up to date with chemical regulations, and for that I'm being sent to CONASTA!!!!!
VOR has been aproved & I'm registered ready to go!

Here we go, finally remembered to take a pic of the trays we now use.

Each of the cubes is slightly larger than the size we actually want, to allow for shrinkage. We cut the red ones in half to make two 1cm cubes.

It took one 800mL batch to fill what you can see here.