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Students taking laboratory generally express their reluctance for wearing safety goggles through a variety of clever complaints too numerous to describe here. In one freshman chemistry class such complaints were effectively silenced for the rest of the semester...
Editor's Note
This column, which is reprinted from Chemical Health and Safety, provides stories about mishaps and chemical hazards that we hope will be interesting to readers and help them avoid accidents. Author Jay A. Young is a chemical safety consultant who has considerable experience in courtrooms as well as in laboratories. Jay taught at the college level for many years and has served as secretary of the Division of Chemical Education. JCE thanks Chemical Health and Safety, its editor, Harry Elston, and Jay Young for allowing us to reprint Accident Anecdotes with minor editing.
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