Mildronate
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Abandoned laboratory
Had you ever found abandoned laboratory ? Some days ago i and my girlfriend (she is chemist) found abandoned laboratory full with soviet era chemicals
and glasware.
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hissingnoise
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Yeah, I've had similar dreams. . .
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unionised
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What, dreams of having a girlfriend?
On the other hand, some pictures would help to convince the unbelievers.
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Chainhit222
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So... why do you think it was abandoned?
Check those corners people....
The practice of storing bottles of milk or beer in laboratory refrigerators is to be strongly condemned encouraged
-Vogels Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry
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JohnWW
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What was the abandoned laboratory that you found in Latvia previously used for, judging by its contents? Had any attempt been made to conceal its
existence, to make it hard to find?
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The WiZard is In
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No, however, some years ago (pre 9/11) walking up Manhattans
53 Street between 10th and 9th avenue, happen up a dumpster
next to a 5-story building that was original owned by St. Clari's
Hospital 52nd and 9th. (If you have seen the movie Remo Williams*
he is shown in front of the hospital.). Coming from a long line of
Irish horse thieves and garbage pickers, I climbed up for a look
at. Remember when chemical came in round cardboard containers?
There was a 50 pound one containing ammonium nitrate!
Sez to myself - nice find, however, I have no immediate use for it,
and have two choices for transport — go home and come back
with my vehicle or carry it home on the subway..... sure ...
I can see my picture on the front cover of every newspaper in the
country! So I let it be.
*Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, also released as Remo:
Unarmed and Dangerous, is a 1985 American film. The action–
adventure-thriller film featured Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford
Brimley and Kate Mulgrew, as well as many guest roles. It was
directed by Guy Hamilton. Wiki-P.
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Mildronate
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I later put some photos. It was Laboratory in old factory. There is much inorganic chemicals from soviet company
"Реахим" there is no any metal hardware and electronic devices anymore.
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Mildronate
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I spend years on abonded lab reserch 
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Skyjumper
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I am part of the Urban Exploration Resource forum, and there was an epic abandoned lab in the North East, I may be going some time.
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=81...
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Skyjumper: And why are you not yet the owner of a fine quality geiger counter and drum of KBr? 
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And your gf is a chemist? What an interesting coincidence. Fiding abandonned goods on the territory of the former SU is like finding uneaten flesh
in a pool of pirahnas.
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Rich_Insane
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"Reahim-Samara" is a Russian joint-stock chemical company.... It was probably Soviet before 1991.
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Mildronate
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Yes my girlfriend is chemist, we learning chemistry together in Latvian University. In former soviet union is much of cool things look here http://www.bradajumi.lv/gallery/index.php
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Mildronate
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images:
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8158/dsc05504h.jpg
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5632/dsc05478c.jpg
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6736/dsc05463.jpg
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/9058/dsc05460y.jpg
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Magpie
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That looks like fun, poring over all the chemicals and equipment of that abandoned lab. Can you take or buy any of that, or is it just for looking?
How is the Soviet era glassware? Did they make their own or buy it from the West. I've heard that Czech glass is good.
The single most important condition for a successful synthesis is good mixing - Nicodem
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Mildronate
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I can take everything. I found there D2O. There is soviet, czech and german glasware. Chemicals is soviet and merch
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peach
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There's a UK website somewhere (forgotten the address) were people break into old abandoned cinema's, theme parks, military facilities (like
underground, early warning nuclear watch posts) and, most interestingly of all, psychiatric hospitals. Some of those are creepier than anything
Hollywood could manage! Medical equipment all over the floor, toys, scribbled drawings, rubber rooms stained and torn to bits, chillers, hose down
rooms, restraints and autopsy tables.... 
They only break in to take lots of photos, it's bad etiquiette to take things or vandalize the place.
I've been trying to get together a collection of gory medical equipment myself, vintage electroshock supplies, trepanning saws, an orbitclast (used in
Dr Freemans disturbing, grossly negligent transorbital lobotomy method). The only requirements being, it's old, it's a genuine item & it's
something that has some character and history to it, preferably with a lot of controversy involved.
One of my friends has a GIGANTIC abandoned theme park near him. We went for a ride on our bikes around there it was so big. It's like a theme park in
a forest.
I remember seeing a program, I think it was around the world with Micheal Palin, where they visited a state theme park in China. All the performers
and staff were putting on shows and acts, in silence. There was not a single visitor in the entire place, but him.
I bet you can find some GOOD stuff hanging around Eastern Europe. Just got to be careful you don't get harvested and forced into
unwanted gay sex pornography en route by the body traders. That might be quite fun actually.... 
Then there's how cool Russian sounds, that everything looks like Red Alert and of coarse, the
clincher, the Russian girls.
GET DOWN THERE, YOU DAMN FRUIT CAKE!
A normal day in the -------Eastern----------> block
THINGS I'D TAKE
Anything in a screw top bottle. Especially if it's amber. If it's all going in the bin, take loads of it and eBay it. Use the Euro / UK eBay to get
more money back.
Nice find Mildronate! I wish I found more things like that, and not just spiders hiding under my reagent bottles.
a.) some kind of rackmount? Anything left in it?
A.) The Holy Chalice? B.) another filter flasks c.) that's either a TLC plate mister or a repeating dispenser, both of which are handy d.) DANGER
DANGER (High voltage!); someone was there not a million years ago
A.) I love that. I'd buy it if I lived close by. b.) Variac / rheostat
How my sink is beginning to look
[Edited on 9-9-2010 by peach]
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Mildronate
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Thats not a normal day in the -------Eastern----------> block to my mind. No thats not some kind of rackmount ( to my mind its for making deionised
water).
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peach
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Quote: Originally posted by Mildronate  | | Thats not a normal day in the -------Eastern----------> block to my mind. No thats not some kind of rackmount ( to my mind its for making deionised
water). |
Within minutes of stepping off the train in Sylvania / Croatia, there were girls in their underwear rollerskating around me. I'm NOT making this up.
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woelen
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Croatia is not the same as Latvia (Letland). These two countries are very far apart. Historically, Croatia was not even part of the Eastern block of
Europe, it was part of the SFRY (Yugoslavia) which had its own regime and was not a puppet-state of the Soviets.
But Mildronate did a good find with that abandoned lab. Such things definitely cannot be found in the Netherlands, and if there is something
abandoned, then it certainly will be completely empty with everything even remotely dangerous removed and taken care of by some official agency.
[Edited on 10-9-10 by woelen]
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