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okay so if you plan to use all that funky stuff in the chem lab [Scientist running around while lab on fire]

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without blowing off a hand or breathing in something that'll send your lungs [Scientist puts out fire with extinguisher]

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into paroxysms of pain you may want to be just a wee bit familiar with the

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equipment you'll be using we're going to throw a handful of items echa first will [Man throws items at another man]

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tell you what it's not and will tell you what it is

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beaker a beaker is not this guy beaker is just his name what can we say his [Man with puppet's face appears]

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parents were cool nimi and ease this is the sort of beaker

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you're likely to find in a chemistry lab if a glass container used to hold a

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liquid or other material so you don't have to hold it in your hand [Man pours liquid from beaker into hand]

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Bunsen burner a Bunsen burner is not this thing if anything that's a bun

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burner yeah great for toning those gluteus maximus muscles not so much for [Woman stretching outdoors]

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making advancements in science a Bunsen burner is built in flame source you'll

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be using anytime you need to heat up it's safer than starting a bonfire at [Scientist heating up kebab with bunsen burner]

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your lab station are to roast marshmallows on but if you take the good

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with the bad chemical fume hood now these are not worn by smokers to give [Man smoking cigarette]

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themselves maximum exposure alone killing fume a chemical fume hood is

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actually a large box ish sort of thing with a glass window that allows you or [Fume hood appears]

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your fellow scientists to work with toxic or dangerous substances without

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introducing them into your respiratory system because you don't want to start [Scientist coughs blood on sheet of paper]

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talking up a Lud when I get all over your lab note quite crucial a crucible

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is not an award-winning play by Arthur Miller well okay it is but we're talking

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about the small port one container you might use to burn certain materials the [A porcelin container appears]

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crucible can withstand very high temperature so it won't melt bad news

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for you experimental artists out there Erlenmeyer flasks not a rounded bottle [Man places sausage into erlenmeyer flask]

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you store baloney that would be an Oscar Mayer class and

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fortunately those don't exist an Erlenmeyer flask is a glass container

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much like a beaker but with a narrow neck they're much better than beakers [Necklace appears in erlenmeyer flask]

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when it comes to wearing jewelry funnel a funnel is not a really fun underground

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tunnel also those are kittens with wings a funnel is a tool [Kids poking at bats in a tunnel]

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usually glass with one wide end and one narrow end used to transfer substances

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from one place to another like children from an underground tunnel goggles

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goggles goggles is not the term for a family of geese [A family of geese appear at family table]

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that's a gaggle this however is a gaggle of goggle strap one of these bad boys

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over your eye before working with any dangerous substance in the lab it may [Scientist working in lab with goggles]

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sound cornea but if you want to be a good pupil do a so phobia and wear your

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goggles iris pie plate not the fajita dish served at chilly the they bring [Waiter presents fajita dish to couple at restaurant]

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your table always be nice although you have to be careful with those do in the

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lab a hot plate is a heat source without an open flame it is definitely

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Frankenstein's heat source of preference pipette pipette is not a smoking device [Woman smoking cigarette]

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for the lady so it's one of these guys basically an eyedropper thing for

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extracting small amounts of liquid not what you want to use to change out the [Man using pipette to transfer out swimming pool water]

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water in your swimming pool and finally pause I said it song does that large

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metal plier like devices use to hold or pick up stuff you'd rather not touch [Man using tongs to pick up beaker]

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with your fingers but if you ever get caught using them to pick your nose well

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you're going to be taking a timeout in the emergency shower [Woman under a shower]

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