• Question: what is the weirdest experiment you have done

    Asked by anon-242689 to Zahra, Peter, Mairi, Elliott, Danica, Ane, Áine on 11 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by anon-242681.
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      Danica Pinto answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Hi cake393egg and xmas393ear,

      I don’t really recall doing any weird experiments but I do remember experiments that produced weird smells in the lab 😀 Especially the experiments that involved hydrogen sulfide (H2S), they have a characteristic smell of rotten eggs! ewww.

    • Photo: Zahra Rattray

      Zahra Rattray answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      The weirdest experiment for me was injecting some pork belly from the butchers. It was to see where the injection goes! We also got to put the pork belly in jelly and spin it to take pictures across the inside of it.

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      Elliott Reedy answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      During my final year at university I was involved in a project that involved analysing mosquitoes!

      We developed a method that could quickly tell you the age of the mosquito – which then tells you it’s capability for transmitting malaria. This method is now being used by field scientists in Tanzania!

    • Photo: Mairi

      Mairi answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      I once did a reaction using yeast (the stuff you use to make bread!). You had to be careful with the reaction conditions so you didn’t kill the yeast!

    • Photo: Ane Valera

      Ane Valera answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      I remember that back at University, we had to collect saliva by spitting into a glass to then isolate an enzyme called amylase (which digests glycogen and starch to produce simpler sugars) and test how it works.

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