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thats my next research, it was Manganese Dioxide.
It has a green sticker on it.

Hi guys, as my usual practice in expanding my knowledge, I read the CSIS each time i get a chemical out...this morning a chemical was requested that is not in CSIS.
Does this mean we should not be using it? I have printed the MSDS as we didn't have that either....

Jen1 wrote:Does the Stull cap fits the old amber glass bottles??????????

yeah they do, the narrow opening ones, but you can't squeeze the bottle to drop, so you kind of get a 'dash' of liquid, not a drop, if that makes sense (just tried it with water!)

I will prob store some, but yes prob have some to *swap* for something else. HT approval of coarse.

Just went to find some HCL- and all we have is 2M - thats no fun....wont be mixing any before the hols.....oh well the dropper bottles are ready with their little labels....

just as far as i know, don't put the ones that need to be kept in the dark..silver nitrate & any iodine ones, as for the rest it is safe i think. I hasd a look at our solutions and there are lots of them in plastic..... I am going to phase out the amber bottles, swapping over the more common one...

i got 200 of them, incl postage it was $160...i love spending other people's money LOL

i got them from Science supply Australia, and they are an 'all on one unit' so you just twist the top and drop, so the kids don't actually take the dropper out of the bottle. They come in 60ml and 120ml i think, i got the 60ml bottle, and they are shoter and fatter than the sample, and they just squ...

oh Rob - how annoying!!!! 8O I was so excited when i was ordering them, i ran around and showed all the staff how they worked, bit of PR to show how great they were. Then when theya rrived, i did the same thing "look, no rubber just twist and use, no contamination either..." but i will be ...

All i have heard is that nothing wil be known until after the 2nd April when the LSL is officially over and the position is vacant... So it will be the hols.. fingers crossed. I SOOOOOOO want to stay here..... [-o< [-o< [-o< i love what i do here. :wub: But i would come back & work with you in a...

Thanks! I will prob keep all the indicators and stains in their amber bottles but replace all their droppers with the better ones from the chems i am changing...

now which chem to to do first...i am a bit partial to HCL but i like the thrill of NaOh

I am such a sad case..

I am very excited, all my new plastic dropper bottles arrived and now it is time to get rid of the rubber top ones that perish.

Would you guys make up fresh chems, or just transfer the old solutions into new bottles?

I don't know when the last solutions were made....

thanks!

Ian,
I recognise your astounding knowledge and expertise

I have looked it up in the Serrata catalogue, it is also called ammonia paper and in the 2006 price is $49.95 for 125 A4 sheets...so not cheap at all. I vaguely remember doing something with 'ammonia paper' at uni, we all designed something on the piece of paper and then out it in large jars in the ...

ok, so out to the quad i go.....
hope its not expensive....willhave to replace the packet i think..

LOL all of you - and it is supposed to do soemthing whwn exposed to light~

Who can tell me about this stuff?

It seems out supply is old and may not be doing what it is supposed to be doing....i just found an unopened batch from 2008 - awaiting results...

thanks guys!

well i wont need to buy anymore bioviewer slides - i think i have 5 copies of EVERY one ever produced!!!
That was a veru successful hunt! (the HT said is that them pointing to the drawers!)

woohoo! i ROCK!!!

JelJane I have been here 1 term and and still finidng my way around....if i can't find something, i stop looking and move on to the next prac to find stuff for, then i end up finding stuff for the first... We are 1 term post refurbishment too, so its still a little bit of a mess here, although getti...

I just had a look at the Southern Biological site and found a great pic of a bio viewer. they are like a microscope, but instead of glass slides the pics are on like a negative strip (remember when you used to get your photos developed??) and you slide it thru a slot have a look thru the eye piece a...

are you able to buy the slides anymore? Or where from?
We seem to only have a very narrow selection of blood & plant cells....