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Not to get all stereotypical, but we always wear the white lab coats when
doing chemistry demos. Having a white background makes color changing
reactions easier to see. Plus it keeps messes off of your own clothes. (Know
what will remove liquid latex from clothes? Me neither.)

I'm just saying, the classics do sometimes have their uses.

Jonah Cohen
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The Children's Museum (formerly the Science Center of Connecticut)

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From: Shirley Chan [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:17 AM
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Subject: Re: depicting science

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Puh-lese no more lab coats.  It depends on the field of course but 
unless you're working with radioactivity or it's cold, no grad student I 
know wears a lab coat.  If they do, then it's *personalized*, it never 
looks like it just came back from the dry cleaners.  If you've never 
been in or worked in a lab before, find out from someone who has, do the 
research.  I hate seeing lab-coated scientists on TV looking through 
low-powered compound microscopes talking about the chromosomal 
abnormalities they see.

Shirley

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