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| Distillation | Spectroscopy | Cleaning | Record-Keeping | Accidents | Miscellaneous |
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| Set up reaction under Ar, added in reagents and forgot to add stir bar | 27 |
| forgot to make co spot in the TLC . | 22 |
| While performing the reflux reactions, I forgot to switch on the Water circulator. | 21 |
| Used latex gloves while washing glassware with soap - glassware goes flying around the sink | 19 |
| Pick up something from the floor and while doing so, dropping the contents out of the front pocket of your lab-coat (usually NMR tubes) | 19 |
| Handeled volitile, smelly and/or toxic solvents or reagents (benzene, carbon disulfide, acrylates, etc.) outside of the fume hood. | 19 |
| Added a stir bar to a flask sitting on a magnetic stir plate and the flask breaks. | 19 |
| Forgot to add starting material | 19 |
| Did not measure melting point of any organic compounds for an entire year. Measured melting point of all organic compounds synthesised within one year the night before thesis was due. | 18 |
| Wore incorrect gloves, dissolved them. | 18 |