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Re: 'shake well'

From occam <occam@nowhere.nix>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: 'shake well'
Date 2026-07-06 20:34 +0200
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On 06/07/2026 17:41, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:
> 
<snip>

>>
> Back in 1962 I had a summer job in a chemical research laboratory belonging
> to a brewery. Neither the lady supervising me nor I had any experience, or
> even much theoretical knowledge, of chromatography on Sephadex (dextran beads),
> and we weren't happy that the Sephadex column that we prepared didn't seem to
> be packed very evenly, and had air bubbles. To fix it, we tied a string around
> the open end, and swung it round in the way you describe. To be safe, or at
> least to be less obviously dangerous, we did it outside in a place there weren't
> any people walking around. Even so, it was incredibly stupid and dangerous. If
> it had become detached the pointed end would have made it into a javelin that 
> could kill anyone it hit.
> 

Ah, the swinging 60s! Those were fun times.

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'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-03 22:33 -0400
  Re: 'shake well' Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 00:03 -0400
    Re: 'shake well' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 23:05 -0700
    Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 12:02 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-04 08:46 -0400
        Re: 'shake well' Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-04 20:26 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 09:28 -0400
    Re: 'shake well' Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-06 15:33 +0100
      Re: 'shake well' richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-06 14:52 +0000
        Re: 'shake well' Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-07 19:49 +0100
          Re: 'shake well' richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-07 19:38 +0000
      Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-06 17:04 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-06 11:14 -0400
        Re: 'shake well' Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-07 19:50 +0100
          Re: 'shake well' Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-07 16:21 -0400
            Re: 'shake well' Nick Canuck <the_bay898@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-07 23:28 +0000
      Re: 'shake well' athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-06 15:41 +0000
        Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-06 20:34 +0200
          Re: 'shake well' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-06 22:34 +0200
        Re: 'shake well' Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-07 19:53 +0100
      Re: 'shake well' Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-06 20:34 +0100
        Re: 'shake well' Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-07 19:51 +0100
      Re: 'shake well' rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) - 2026-07-06 20:21 +0000
        Re: 'shake well' Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-07 19:51 +0100
  Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 06:38 +0100
    Re: 'shake well' Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-04 08:49 +0200
  Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 06:51 +0100
    Re: 'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-04 08:48 -0400
  Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 08:28 +0200
  Re: 'shake well' Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-04 08:43 +0200
    Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 08:02 +0100
      Re: 'shake well' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-04 11:53 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-04 20:05 +0100
    Re: 'shake well' Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-04 22:59 +1200
      Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 16:25 +0200
        Re: 'shake well' HVS <office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2026-07-04 16:11 +0100
          Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 16:27 +0100
          Re: 'shake well' richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-04 15:40 +0000
            Re: 'shake well' Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-07-05 10:06 +0100
        Re: 'shake well' Charles Hope <clh@candehope.me.uk> - 2026-07-04 16:00 +0000
        Re: 'shake well' Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-05 18:05 +1200
          Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-05 08:45 +0200
    Re: 'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-04 08:39 -0400
  Re: 'shake well' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-04 11:53 +0200
    Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 12:05 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-04 12:29 +0100
        Re: 'shake well' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-05 00:20 -0700
        Re: 'shake well' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-05 09:22 +0200
  Re: 'shake well' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 21:49 +0800
  Re: 'shake well' Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-04 20:01 +0100

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