Deciphering your Materials Safety Data Sheet
Safety Data Sheets tell us how to handle and dispose of every chemical we use. This article explains what they are and how to decipher them.
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Safety Data Sheets tell us how to handle and dispose of every chemical we use. This article explains what they are and how to decipher them.
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One day, a colleague stopped by my workbench to ask which detergent would not break the nuclear membrane. Based on my previous experience using gentle detergents in lysis buffers, I replied, “NP-40”. However, we had two brands of NP-40. A closer look at the datasheets revealed that the chemical names were different even though they…
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