Sam Levine5d ago

When you go to get something out of the cabinet (which turned out not to be there anyway) and discover something else is A Problem.

This was the boron tribromide with the "use in three months of pack date" that I was shipped in July of last year. I haven't touched it since maybe late September, at which point it looked pretty normal. The bottle itself is inside this secondary container and I'm a little worried what it's going to look like when I open it...plastic cap maybe totally disintegrated?

#Chemistry #ChemiVerse

Show threadMCDuncanLab5d ago

@SRLevine

And thank you for reminding me why I’m glad I’m not a chemist. I use chemicals 10 yrs past their expiration and the worst that’s gonna happen is my yeaties are sad.

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@MCDuncanLab Oh I use stuff super old all the time. Including "so old the plastic broke when you picked it up" types. But certain things are just nasty, nasty compounds. This is in a glass bottle, but the cap is plastic and I think teflon lined and that still isn't enough...
May 28 at 1:07amWeb
Show threadMCDuncanLab5d ago

@SRLevine

Oh yeah fur sure, you probably use a lot of the chemicals I use. But the ven diagram is nearly all chemicals I use contained in chemicals you use.

Chemicals you use that I don’t scare me.