When I taught in the high school, the football coach (prankster) would "borrow" the butyric acid from the chemistry teacher (asst football coach) and spread a bit of the acid on a paper towel and then tape it to the underside of a bench in the hall next to the cafeteria.....
LJ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/27/05 9:28 PM >>> butyric acid is a piker compared to some of the stuff in the lab...I avoid skatole at all costs... --- Larry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just be careful to keep the buteric acid closed. > > LJ > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/27/05 12:18 PM >>> > I sent a note to Mark off-list telling him that the > O.ofW. would at > least make his lab smell better. Here's his reply. > > >Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:16:44 -0500 > >To: Mark Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>are you impugning my lab, Allan??? (Most of the > time > >>it just smells a bit musty.) Actually, it's going > to > >>smell much worse come Monday. A couplee of > students > >>have opted for an experiment that uses pyridine > for a > >>solvent. Even tough they'll be doing it in the > fume > >>hood, enough will escape out into the general lab > air > >>to make it smell very unpleasant. for those who > don't > >>know, pyridine is a very stinky aromatic amine > >>compound. I'd much rather smell trieathylamine > >>(rotting fish smell) than pyridine!!! > >> > >>Mark Delaney > >>--- Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Mark, I hadn't heard that one either. > >>> > >>> Let me know how it works. At least the lab > will > >>> smell good for a change. <g> > >>> > >>> Allan > >>> > > >Hadn't heard that one before.. > -- > > Allan Fish > Greenwood, IN > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== So much water, so little time! Website: http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
