Not writing the names of the samples on the tubes properly! then they washed off and I had no idea which tubes were which and I had to start again – ahhhhh!
I once accidentally set a beaker of ethanol on fire. I tried to extinguish the fire by pouring water into the beaker, which wasn’t a good idea as it produced a jet of fire that singed off my eyebrows… not very fun 🙁
ummm squirting bacteria in my eye was probably the most disgusting! There was one time when I’d done this HUGE experiment and I was feeling a little woozy from all the pipetting…..and instead of writing down all the information I threw out the things that had what each of the conditions were…..I only realised late the next day, by which time they had been autoclaved and lost forever, I had to repeat the whole thing!!!
When I was in sixth form my lab partner and I had a miscommunication problem and he accidently set fire to a massive beaker of ethanol rather than heating up water. That was a big whoosh of flames!
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