housekeeping

finally got most everything cleaned up today, now that my two labmates are gone. i’ll have the whole lab to myself for the rest of the week, as well as the fall semester. it’ll be odd. it’s quiet, which is nice (well, as quiet as it can be with so many vacuum pumps running…), but a bit eerie. i’m most looking forward to only having to clean up after myself, and to not having to worry about all of the glassware and items i’ve painstakingly cleaned out being used up before i can start my experiment (especially the filter frits, which have to be left in the oven for a few hours before going into the glovebox).

the fume hood is finally cleared out (which makes me feel better… i had to avoid looking at it because it brought out my ocd side), we have a new empty glass disposal box, the filter frits are finally starting to shape up, and i’m finally starting to get things back to an orderly state i like. got some new (and improved?) aqua regia bubbling away in the fume hood as well, a half-batch, to finish up the cleaning efforts for the summer (hopefully we won’t have too much leftover when we’re done). it’s looking nice and bright red. made it about an hour ago, and it’s still evolving chlorine(?) gas. got the sash pulled down just in case.

~ by scififreaker on 2008.July.1.