I'm having to use hyaluronic acid (as hyluronate sodium salt) myself atm. As drops to keep my eyeballs moist so the most badly burned one doesn't dry out or try to stick to the eyesocket; to help it heal as much as its going to naturally before the eye specialists do something about correcting my vision as much as possible.
*hugs miss K and hopes the furbag gets better soon*
Replacement sep funnel arrived today, and I'm not bloody happy with the grind of the glass. Before anything hot goes in there I'll be checking it under a set of polarizing filters to show up if its badly annealed. Could have been hadly injured with the way the other one failed, most likely due to shitty annealing and been splattered with the entire contents of it, 500ml of whatever nasty, potentially searingly corrosive, oxidizing, pyrophoric, toxic, flammable etc. and if it happened to be able to attack the material my lab gloves are made from (butyl rubber I think. Big, long, nearly elbow-length fuckers to help keep me in one piece, and they have done a good job handling some fairly vicious stuff so far. I could do with a couple of new sets though since the two sets I have are beginning to get worn.
Going to threaten bad feedback for the funnel though, the end of the glass stopcock fitted looks like it was filed down with a bloody bench grinder, angle-grinder or stone-cutter saw, something rough and definitely not suitable for the job. There are even chips off the tip. And the skeezy prick that sold it me just held it in place with an elastic band rather than a suitable locking nut, O-ring and washer. Going to demand a new stopcock for it that is for certain. And there are a couple of regions that I'll have to take some very very fine abrasive to myself and finish the fucking grind. Bought a 1 liter separatory funnel after one of mine had a catastrophic failure, although luckily enough there was nothing hazardous in there, just a few ml of a last solvent pull extracting the product of one of my experiments from the reaction mixture, and it shattered on a mere turn of the stopcock. I did keep the stopcock though, since the fault had to be with the glass itself. If I'm lucky the taper of the new one with the shite grind to it Bloody stopper for it is ground atrociously too. They won't be getting any good reviews off me needless to say. Thankfully the areas that are badly ground are all ones that I can fix, although that stopcock can get fucking buggered, not using that, it feels awfully rough between the glass surfaces.
Teflon ones are so much nicer and smoother to use, a lot more comfortable. Hope I can re-use the one for the funnel that broke in this. Putting a rubber fucking band on it...the cheap cunt. Sheesh. If somebody were either totally inexperienced and didn't know, or were just lazy careless and stupid and used it like that many solvents would eat through that rubber band in seconds, and something like concentrated sulfuric or nitric acid would shrivel it to a little scrap of dust in less time than it takes a fart to go from beginning to end. If I met the slob that made this, or sold it, they'd be going home with one less sphincter and one less wallet for the trouble; carrying their teeth in a doggy bag. With the words 'lazy, useless, bone idle talentless paedophile with sewage for a skull-packing. ' written in permanent marker across their forehead.
For all the effort they went to to pack it, what they packed was crap. And in enough bubble wrap that I had to dump three rolls, maybe 4 of the stuff long enough I had to place the funnel gently on the floor and start walking backwards, the resulting crap filling the bin to the top. I now need to restore it with some loving care spent on it and down to the finest grades of sandpaper. Thankfully all the problems visible are in portions that can be replaced cheaply and easily.
Going to be shopping for a new power supply, and an NBC suit (the self-contained survival suits you see in horror films where some nasty virus or alien critter is on the loose and offing people, or after a nuclear holocaust, often portends an alien being on the receiving end of a rectal probe from the US govt. in movies. That kind of thing, although in my case, to keep me from being on the sharp end of any nasty chemicals) probably today. You can bet for those I'll be scrutinizing every last detail, and going digging for dirt on the manufacturers as well)
