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Subject:Re: chemical hoods From:Stewart Walker <stewart -dot- walker -at- CPE -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:25:25 +1000
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 08:49:00 PST
From: Marilynne Smith <mrsmith -at- CTS -dot- COM>
Subject: Re: chemical hoods
David Ibbetson wrote:
>Are those the things one finds in chemistry laboratories? If so, I think I
>would call it a fume extractor.
Marilynne Smith replied:
>If you have technicians of the uneducated sort working with the fume
>extractor, you had better call it some sort of hood. You might even call it
>a ventilated hood for removing dangerous fumes. In this case, it's very
>important to know who your reader is. What is written on the hood? A
>chemist is different in his understanding than a technician or a student.
My AUD$0.02:
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When I did high school and university chemistry, they were called fume
cupboards (I missed the opening instalment - sorry if this is where you
started from!). This may be an Australian term, so as Marilynne says, it's
very important to know who your reader is.
Cheers
Stewart
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