• Question: What is the most dangerous element that you have worked with?

    Asked by anon-226999 to William, Thibaut "Tibo", Harry, Georgia, Emily, Aimee on 12 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Aimee Egglestone

      Aimee Egglestone answered on 12 Nov 2019:


      I tend not to work with dangerous elements, however in terms of chemicals I quite regularly work with chemicals which can have all kinds of nasty effects.

      Mostly, because I am in Organic Chemsitry, the types of dangers I face are health dangers rather than pyrophorics like Georgia works with. So I work with a lot of things that if I breath a tiny bit in my lungs can immediately shut down, or with chemicals which might make it hard for me to have children if I come in direct skin contact or even which can just cause cancer if I am exposed to them for a long time.

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