Originally Posted by
Burton
Actually, besides a bunsen burner - alcohol burners were standard equipment in high school and university laboratories when you and I were still in high school.
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They may not be now, but maybe if you had been paying more attention then - you would have graduated with better grades, a better outlook on life and felt you had less to prove. I think by the time you finally got your high school grades up to let you get college acceptance - I was being solicited by some of the department heads at McGill to proofread Ph.D. thesis's and collaborate on a scientific book dealing with some aspects of abstract physics. And I think I had already been working with high tech teams on neat projects like guidance systems for cruise missles and optical targeting systems for military helicopters for about ten years before you eventually struggled through your first degree.
You're clearly a legend in your own mind, and dispite multiple suggestions in other posts that we try to use these forums constructively - it still seems no-ones opinion is quite as qualified as yours. This is supposed to be an EXCHANGE of ideas and experience. Not just an effort to see who has the biggest mouth.There are lots of other users here from a variety of backgrounds with practical experience to share.
You know there are forum rules about respect. Calling into question my intellect and my grades is violating those rules. Attacking the man is just a cheap trick by people who have no other recourse and whose arguments are weak. Talk to the point of the argument. You have no idea what my grades in college were, when I graduated from college or anything else about me. In other words, your entire post is nothing but insulting drivel meant to do exactly what you say that I am doing, i.ee. making yourself a legend in your own tiny little mind. Where have you been constructive? I pointed out a mistake on your part and all you can do is deflect it with insults that I should report to the moderators.
Now, as for having alcohol burners in labs when I was in college, there were none. There hadn't been any for several years. They are, and were, crappy heat sources and dangerous to use. Again, no one that I have known has used one for more than 3 decades.