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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:00:51 -0500
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Subject: 3 more Re: [DCHAS-L] UCLA Lab Fire
From: "Paul Harrison"
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] UCLA Lab Fire
One also wonders why the syringe "melted:" sounds like a plastic
syringe since I doubt that even a t-BuLi fire could melt glass. I
would NEVER recommend a plastic syringe for anything that isn't mostly
aqueous, and certainly not t-BuLi.
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Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] UCLA Lab Fire
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:58:59 -0500
From: "Bush, Kimberly"
Of course, I don't know exactly why she would use plastic instead of
glass, it may be because similar procedures with less hazardous
reagents are commonly carried out using a plastic syringe and she may
not have felt that the substitution would decrease the risk. I
wouldn't say that the use of a plastic syringe was a key contributing
factor to the severity of the incident, but with out all the details
it's hard to say.
I would be interested in seeing the full incident report and what the
college deemed to be the root cause(s) of this event.
Kimi Bush
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From: "Alnajjar, Mikhail S"
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] UCLA Lab Fire
Prior to using pressurized containers such as butyllithium, one of the
safety practices is to use a needle to vent the container prior to the
insertion of the syringe. Relying on piano fingers (:-) are not enough.
A nitrogen bubble (as mentioned below) is also chemists best friend.
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Mikhail
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