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<b>The Weekly Mix</b></div>
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Volume: Autumn 2025 | Edition: Week 7</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Schedule</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fortunately, Week 6 was much calmer than Week 5. Let’s hope Week 7 is similar. Here’s what we’ve got planned:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Experimental Details</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Review the window notes and any associated equipment guides for additional details.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please see <a href="https://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/preplabstudents/2025-September/000302.html" data-outlook-id="54678043-aa13-41bb-b7e6-0a1f7fef1116">
the Week 6 Edition</a> for details on CYC and CLK.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>STR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is one of my favorites! Students should try to keep their samples under the snorkels as much as possible. This will help immensely
with the odor in the room. The waste will be disposed of in the white can (Chemical Waste container) in Hood B.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>LLT</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blue square carboys of 0.44 M NaOH will be swapped out during the lab readiness checks by those completing them. When swapping out the
blue carboys, check the fill level of the spill tray. Let us know if it’s more than half full. Partially filled bottles of lemon and lime juice should be placed in the fridge. We will periodically combine these. When doing a gather, please check the fridge
first for full bottles of lemon and lime juice. If you need more than what is available in the fridge, please grab new bottles from aisle 28. No partial bottles of lemon or lime juice should be left in aisle 28.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>LCP</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Students will be using ice toward the end of lab. We do not provide scoops for ice, instead students should use an empty beaker from
their drawer. At least one glove should be removed when walking through the hallway. If students are in the hallway with two gloved hands, please gently ask them to remove one glove. Additional commentary is not necessary.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>IHT</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cups and lids will be in the red dispensers by the balances. We’re going to use quite a few weigh boats, cup and lids- so be sure to
keep a close eye on these. Additional cups and lids are available in the same cabinet as the 15-mL Falcon tubes- this is the cabinet under the balances closest to Hood A.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>MGB</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Model kits will be provided on the bench beside Hood A. Sarah and Emma have replacement parts in both windows if needed.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Other Information</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Week of Fall Break</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We will run our normal schedule on October 13th through October 15th. We still have lab scheduled for October 13th. October 16th and
17th are Fall Break; the prep lab will be closed. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Gather Sheets</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gather sheets should be left with a gather after the gather is completed. Once a cart check or cart change is completed, the gather
sheet should be thrown away. At that point it been with the chemicals and I would prefer it does not come back into the office.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Returning Keys</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We've had way too many instances of keys not being returned after use. You are responsible for any keys you take out of Keyth for the
duration they are checked out. This includes if you hand them off to someone. Please return keys back to Keyth as soon as you are done with them.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Reagent Caps</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anytime you are doing a gather, cart check, cart change, lab readiness check, etc. please be sure you are briefly checking for broken
or missing caps. We have replacement caps on the end of aisle 27/27. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Rando Wash Bottles</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When collecting abandoned equipment from the sink areas and hoods, please be sure to also grab any wash bottles that have been abandoned.
Some hoods recently had three or more in them.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Cart Reagents</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please be sure the reagent bottles on the carts are standing upright and labels are facing forward. As mentioned earlier, you should
also be checking that all caps are intact and closed. If solids are supposed to be provided with a scoop, straw, or forceps, please be sure those are also present.</span></p>
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