Word: fume
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peter Bochnak of Harvard's Environmental Healthand Safety Department said the pair had beenfollowing all correct safety procedures, includingusing gloves, goggles and a fume hood. The burnedstudent immediately used a safety shower, whichcaused some flooding in the building...
...They're sifting through the debris in the sink[under the fume hood] to find a cause," he said...
...Davis called the labs "behind the times." In the matter of students' health, this pronouncement raises worrisome issues. Organic chemistry labs often feature a wide variety of toxic and carcinogenic materials; improvements cannot come soon enough. Fortunately, the renovations will augment safety measures with the addition of new fume hoods...
...student was working with a gram of copper cyanide in a fume hood," a safety device where a sheet of glass is used to contain possibly dangerous fumes emitting from experiments, Bochnak said yesterday. "It apparently overheated and the student was flashed with the copper cyanide...
...meeting was a tacit admission that Clinton's formidable ability to win friends and influence people has fallen flat with the military. Since late January, when Clinton announced his interim policy for lifting the military's ban on homosexuals, matters have been difficult. Mid-level officers and enlisted personnel fume about the Clinton Administration's proposed diet of pay freezes and troop reductions. The top brass grumbles about a lack of respect, noting that no generals or admirals sit on the National Security Council and only two of 45 political positions at the Pentagon have been confirmed. "There...