Mis-conceptions about analysts

[WK]

GCGuy,
Please be more specific.
When you say you "saw the light" what particular wavelength did you detect? With what detector?
Sorry your GC - not HPLC.

Oh what a sad joke....!!!
WK

[Basil]

Hi people,

Does anyone have a web site where to buy a tarot cards or crystal ball for analitycal chemists ???...

Sometimes I feel like David Coperfield trying to know what others know but they don't want to tell me.

Does Organic Chemist know that TLC technic is still in use for simple sample to know how many related substances we expect to find by HPLC ,..

Or Quality Assurance demands to show up the absence of a compound that in contact with solvent it is not stable....

God I'm getting mad !!!

[gcguy]

WK

GCguy also does hplc. I was using a DAD when I saw the light so of course it was a broad spectrum of many colours.

GCguy

[WK]

Oh Dear!
I've just had a case where someone thought that every time I reported the compound was <0.02% (LOD) then the analyte was always present - so he's been going off reporting it as "being found".
I suppose he could be right but "not detected/found" is meaningless.
ggrrrhhh
WK

[gcguy]

Maybe n/d should mean "none dummy".
How many other things could n/d mean any ideas?

I wonder if there is a book "Analysis for Dummies"?

GC guy

[Les]

The description I most like:
"skilled plumber" we put pipes together and move things through them.

Supervisor = fix'em so the technicians can run'em.

[gcguy]

If only we got paid as much as plumbers I wouldn't mind be called one.

GC guy

[tom jupille]

So what else is new? One of the oldest jokes in the book is the story about a neurosurgeon whose kitchen sink backed up.

The plumber was called in and fixed the problem, then presented his bill. The neurosurgeon was shocked. "200 dollars for fifteen minutes' work!", he said. "Why, that works out to 800 dollars an hour. I'm a neurosurgeon and even I don't charge that much!"

The plumber was silent for a few seconds, then rubbed his chin and replied "Come to think of it, I didn't charge that much when I used to be a neurosurgeon either."

Maybe we need to see if we can join the plumber's union.