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gardul
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Lab Coats
I tried doing a search and found nothing on the topic.
I was wondering how many of you that practice chemistry at home actually wear a lab coat. If you did where did you get it. What is a good brand?
I just made you read this very pointless signature. How does it feel?
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DraconicAcid
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Any uniform supply store or medical supply store should sell lab coats. I wear one, but I don't actually do my chemistry at home.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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gardul
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I have one but I need to get a new one. I was just wondering if I was the only odd ball.. or if it was a normal thing.
I just made you read this very pointless signature. How does it feel?
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Magpie
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I don't have one but was thinking that it would be good to wear one. But I didn't want a white one as that just screams "mad scientist." So I went
looking for a blue one, but the local shop didn't have blue. I found a nice blue one on the internet, a "Meta" brand for $37. But the more I thought
about it I still felt it was too risky. So I wear an old long-sleeved shirt and a plastic apron. I make sure to take off the apron and gloves when I
go out of the lab. Yeah, I know, I'm paranoid.
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MrHomeScientist
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I wear one occasionally, depending on the hazards of what I'm doing at the time. I suppose best practice would be to have it all the time. Labwear
(dot) com has very good quality coats in white or colored, men and women's sizes, and free embroidery! Looks like they redesigned their site and the
formatting isn't working properly, but that could just be the ancient browser I'm forced to use at work.
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careysub
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You can also go the Tyvek disposable coat/suit route, they are quite cheap:
http://www.labweardirect.com/lab-coats/dupont-tyvek-lab-coat...
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HgDinis25
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I've never really understood the importance of lab coats. I find that my old shirts are more confortable and just as good preventing anything to
contact the skin beneath. And by old I mean the ones I don't mind getting ruined.
When I do wear one (a blue one like those used in bodyshops) it's because I'm about to do something that may go really bad...
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diddi
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I got mine from the university bookshop 30 years ago. it is dirty, has brown acid stains and whatever. but I have never ruined an item of clothing.
each pocket is a useful receptacle for an important tool that I can reach for instinctively; safety glasses, glass rod, spare pipette etc
Lab coat: don't leave home without it 
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Oscilllator
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I wear a white lab coat that I bought from my school back when I still went there. I also use the pockets to store useful things like plastic spoons
and PTFE tape, which I use all the time. Nowadays it is quite dirty and covered in stains but I still wear it because I reckon that each one of those
stain adds to the character of my lab coat.
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diddi
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yes I have "special stains" from memorable Grignard explosions and the like. mine is white too. ahhh.... those were the days LOL
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Romain
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Yes, always! I have ruined my shirt every time (that is, twice) I used conc. sulfuric acid without my lab coat... One day I also found that my shirt
had large burnt holes in it. Though at the time I didn't have conc. sulfuric acid and I still don't know what caused these holes. They were about the
size of my hand... :O. I once spilled some lead dioxide suspension on myself and my lab coat saved my clothes. Though now it has a large brown stain
that I can't get rid of.
I usually also wear an old jeans that I don't mind ruining, and safety goggles.
Basically it's more about keeping my clothes intact than for my safety.
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Chemosynthesis
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Never. I have many of them from school, and one particularly fancy one with my name embroidered on it for walking the halls... but at home, I just use
a rubber apron I picked up somewhere.
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unionised
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Real labcoats are marked as Personal protective Equipment.
Something like this (or the local legislature's equivalent)
http://www.shieldscientific.com/public/understanding-standar...
If it hasn't got the right markings for the hazard you are working with then you might as well not bother.
Unfortunately, there are lots of companies out there who will happily sell you something that's only fit for a child's dressing-up box.
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The Volatile Chemist
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Quote: Originally posted by Romain  | Yes, always! I have ruined my shirt every time (that is, twice) I used conc. sulfuric acid without my lab coat... One day I also found that my shirt
had large burnt holes in it. Though at the time I didn't have conc. sulfuric acid and I still don't know what caused these holes. They were about the
size of my hand... :O. I once spilled some lead dioxide suspension on myself and my lab coat saved my clothes. Though now it has a large brown stain
that I can't get rid of.
I usually also wear an old jeans that I don't mind ruining, and safety goggles.
Basically it's more about keeping my clothes intact than for my safety. |
That's funny. I've stained a lot of shirts (Mostly flannels), but never so bad as I had no not wear them anymore. Most are bleaching stains from
peroxide or NaClO. I have a pair of brown shorts that I wear that have green stains on them from tetrachlorocuprate ions, but they match the pants
color, so it works out fine.
To quote:
| Quote: | | memorable Grignard explosions |
Where did you work? I want to work there.
That's such a funny phrase, though! Honestly, what kind of Grignard Reactions? And I've always been curious, are Grignard reactions colorful, or
clear?
Regardless, on the topic of labcoats, below is my typical one:
Woops, Tried to link to it, WAAY too big of a picture of me....
[Edited on 11-18-2014 by The Volatile Chemist]
[Edited on 11-18-2014 by The Volatile Chemist]
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Brain&Force
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My uni sells lab coats, why not check a college campus?
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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Chemosynthesis
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/\ This. I could probably wear a fresh, unstained coat once each day from leftovers back from college. Even got a free one at work since we only wear
immaculate ones to look important outside the labs. It's funny, in some settings, the cleaner your coat, the more important people think you are since
you obviously don't labor.
Even my boss keeps two coats. He said people ignored him in the dirty one, but everyone holds the elevator and calls him "sir" in his clean one.
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chemrox
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I got mine from a chem supplier. The virtue of a lab coat is they are generally nylon and cover my clothes which are cotton or wool, protecting them
from acids and dyes. Oh, I don't do much chem at home now...
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subsecret
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My local college sells lab coats, but they're really cheap, disposable ones that come in one size and fit poorly. I just wear everyday clothes, and as
a result, I have a nitric acid spot on a pair of my pants.
Edit: Do any of you wash your lab coats? Are you supposed to?
[Edited on 19-11-2014 by Awesomeness]
Fear is what you get when caution wasn't enough.
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confused
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I use my labcoat for reactions that involve corrosives, toxic/hazzardous chemicals and anything that might stain my streetclothes, it provides an
additional layer of protection between the hazzard and you, and is easy to remove in the event of an emergency.
I got mine from school, you might want to check out your local college bookstore, they might sell one.
Although i probably shouldn't be using the labcoat i use for biological work in school for home chemistry
I bleach my lab coat once a month or directly after a spill to get rid of any major biological contamination. I wash my lab coat separately from the
street clothes after bleaching.
[Edited on 19-11-2014 by confused]
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diddi
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@The Volatile Chemist
grignards get very hot and should be conducted in ice water bath. rapid addition of reagents results in too much heat and one ends up wearing it. they
are usually close to clear in colour or some iodine type yellows. funny smells can be entertaining with them too.
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I use my univesity lab coat at home with things like bromine and first time nitrations.
It was a bit embarrasing wearing that lab coat in the chem practicals though. All the hunderds of other students were wearing their identical yet
pristine white straight from the shelf coats while mine had odd orange stains and smelt... bad.
I was also the only one to pop the collar on my coat. But thats just because I'm obviously cooler than everyone.
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Never worn a labcoat. I suppose I probably look like a drug addict that burns themselves in their stupor, given all the holes I have in my clothing.
Oh well.
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I wear a lab coat when I know only I and people that know my hobby very well can see it. The rest of the time I wear a soldering leather full coat
(very weird, agreed) since it protects very well from everything that as gotten on it (including sulphuric) and does not make holes. Then, when I get
out of the garage with the face shield people probably only thinks I was soldering something.
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Spock
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I managed to obtain a few slightly worn plastic aprons from my highschool (they were being replaced). As for people seeing it, I spent Halloween night
wearing it along with googles and glove. It was quite interesting to have people pay no attention to it.
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The Volatile Chemist
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| Quote: Originally posted by diddi | @The Volatile Chemist
grignards get very hot and should be conducted in ice water bath. rapid addition of reagents results in too much heat and one ends up wearing it. they
are usually close to clear in colour or some iodine type yellows. funny smells can be entertaining with them too. |
Cool. I've read a bit about them from Vogel's Practical Organic Chemistry Revision 3, but obviously it doesn't tell you a huge amount of how they look
and practical information about them.
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