• Szymon
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    1 year ago

    It’s only been relatively recently that people in labs stopped sucking cancer causing and poisonous chemicals out of containers with their mouths on a pipette.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, so this is why they are so insistent in lab that people don’t use a pipette with their mouths. I thought it was mostly a meme!

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      1 year ago

      Bulb pipette (like a turkey baster) and glass pipette (like putting your finger over a straw) have been around since the 1940s? Mouth pipetting was banned in most places in the 1970s.

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        Yes, I did say relatively. Although I did hear second hand that was seen by a foreign guest researcher at a facility I worked at about a decade ago.