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Subject:Re: chemical hoods From:Marilynne Smith <mrsmith -at- CTS -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 31 Mar 1996 08:49:00 PST
At 07:59 PM 3/30/96 -0500, David Ibbetson wrote:
>Are those the things one finds in chemistry laboratories? If so, I think I
>would call it a fume extractor.
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If you have technicians of the uneducated sort working with the fume
extractor, you had better call it some sort of hood. You might even call it
a ventilated hood for removing dangerous fumes. In this case, it's very
important to know who your reader is. What is written on the hood? A
chemist is different in his understanding than a technician or a student.
Marilynne (who once left a lab where a student turned on a bunsen burner and
then spent a long time looking for a match and whose professor did no
teaching on the incident.)
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mrsmith -at- cts -dot- com
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