haf, blurst of her nameToday's test: how many times can I type "mobile ion traps" without losing my goldang mind?
Answer: at least 12 and counting.
COLLABORATOR: Hey, I just got my TOF-SIMS data back, and I saw a lot of sodium, so we probably want to be careful as we go forward with our synthesis.
ME: Oh, uh, how much are we talking? TOF-SIMS is very sensitive to sodium, and it's not really a quantitative technique...
COLLABORATOR: Oh. Wait. Really?
They showed me their data, we talked about it, and it left me feeling warm and fuzzy. It's not all strife today. :D
Okay but really, why don't we have oven mitts in the lab? Just pulled the Parr vessels from a 90C oven, and had to wrap them in a lab towel because there are no oven mits or anything that I could move them with comfortably. We've got tongs for the high temperature furnace; why not oven mitts?
If flame tests are inconclusive, will have to do ICP-OES. Would rather *not* have to do that, but, y'know...life.
All right, that went OK, I think. Everything's in the oven. 90C overnight, woo. Flame tests in the morning after I react out any calcium (as CaCO3, ofc).