>a student at MIT synthesized dimethyl mercury>it's one of the most potent known neurotoxins>he got exposed to it and his death is pretty much guaranteedwhy did he do it?
>>541645162Faustian spirit
>>541645162tell me more anon
>>541645162How can it myself too?Is it painless?Asking for a friend
>>541646112Haha no, it's going to be a incredibly painful month long suffering
>>541646302>Month longDepends on dosage, big enough dose you will die quickly.
>>541646112Friend here. He’s not asking it on my behalf
>>541646112no his brain is going to slowly decay for the next six months give or take. he's going to slowly lose motor function then vision and hearing until he's in a vegetative state and can't breath naturally. basically a long drawn out death of the brain. that entire time he's dying slowly there's nothing that can be done either https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199806043382305
>>541645162What a retard, why would you fuck around with organic mercury.
>>541646112Just use Nitrogen
>>541645162> synthesized dimethyl mercury It’s a hobby
>>541645162you can treat this kind of poisoning, i think
>>541645162Competency crisis.In the past MIT had lab TAs watching what was going on but now they are probably staring at their phone
>>541646692No, you can't.
>>541646834Death is a treatment
>>541645162>Breaking Bad>But Jesse fucks up the chemistry in episode 1 and kills them both
>>541646427kek
>>541646515"I read about it and thought it was cool so I wanted to make it."-Every chemist ever.
>>541645162>why did he do it?he wanted to kill someonehe wanted to fabricate a potent poison that can kill by absorption through the skinthe methyl groups make the mercury very affine to lipids, as such it can easily penetrate the skin and enter the blood stream where it will accumulate to the brain and cause deathone drop would be enough to kill an elephantunfortunately he didn’t realize that you need laminated protection to your hands and work in negative pressurehe probably used standard latex gloves, that are notoriously permeable to dimethylmercurythe wanna be murderer will die a painful deaths
>>541646799competence crisis
>>541646799How the fuck did the lab tech even allow this guy to take out the precursors. Did the retard buy them himself from shady chinese chem suppllers.
>>541646692Sadly, no.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_WetterhahnWonder why he thought it was a good idea to synthesize it. Did he have plans for it? Surely he understood the danger.
>>541646692no you cannot. what works for mercury poisoning doesn’t work with dimethylmercury since the methyl groups make it much less reactive and more stable in our body
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>>541647041retard nobody checks what you order if you are in MIT. That’s MIT they surely know what they are doing!My friend once ordered literal cocaine from the pharma company and it was delivered
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>>541647041What of the precursors would even tip off an observer? Surely there are a dozen different ways to synthesize it.
>>541645162I assume the guy in question was the dude from Nile Red? Sounds like the kind of retarded thing he'd do.
>>541645162just like Dr. Karen
>>541647474nah doubt he'd fuck around in MIT lab instead of buying new gear for his own lab. plus he's not an actual idiot. not completely at leastplus fucking around with weird shit is more of a nurdrage thing
What do you even need to synthesize this shit for? What research can you possibly need to do that already hasn't been done with it?
>Approximately three months after the initial accident, Wetterhahn began experiencing brief episodes of abdominal discomfort and noticed significant weight loss. The more distinctive neurological symptoms of mercury poisoning, including loss of balance and slurred speech, appeared in January 1997, five months after the accident.[10] At that point, tests proved that she had severe mercury poisoning.[6][7][11] Her blood and urinary mercury content were measured at 4,000 μg/L[9] and 234 μg/L, respectively—both many times their respective toxic thresholds of 200 μg/L and 50 μg/L (blood and urine reference ranges are 1 to 8 μg/L and 1 to 5 μg/L).[10]>Despite aggressive chelation therapy, her condition rapidly deteriorated. Three weeks after the first neurological symptoms appeared, Wetterhahn lapsed into what appeared to be a vegetative state punctuated by periods of extreme agitation.[10] One of her former students said, "Her husband saw tears rolling down her face. I asked if she was in pain. The doctors said it didn't appear that her brain could even register pain."[11] Wetterhahn was removed from life support and pronounced dead on June 8, 1997, ten months after her initial exposure.[10]
>>541645162I used to supervise lab projects for chemistry students and I stopped a lot of them before they could kill themselves or melt their faces off and shit like that.they are simply retarded due to growing up in hyper-safe environments and have lost all survival instincts as a consequence.>get it hammered into them that they should never attempt to dry chlorinated hydrocarbons with sodium again and again during the lectures>sit next to the sodium press>one retard after the other comes and wants to dry their chlorinated hydrocarbons
>>541646112If you enjoy bleeding out of every orifice as your organ slowly dissolve then it's a whale of time.
>>541647807Personal suicide
>>541648153Well they're not going to rack lines out of wet chlorinated hydrocarbons are they, Einstein.
>>541646488eat alot of cilantrao to pull the mercury out
>>541648153Zoomer have the attention span of a TikTok short. Maybe you should just show them a TikTok video on infinite repeat during at the press
>>541647807>What research can you possibly need to do that already hasn't been done with it?Misting it on coloreds to see what happens.
>>541646112Similar to methyl or dimethyl hydrazine, MeHg or in this case dimethyl Hg it can methylate your DNA.Basically it creates induced tumors all throughout your body. Methyl hydrazine is worse than MeHg but their mechanism of action is very similar. Actually methyl hydrazine is used in research to create tumors it's so good at it.
>>541648118So how good would it feel to fuck her asshole and pussy everyday as she went down the road to goodness? If you put your cock in her mouth would she still suck and eat your coom?Asking for a freind.
>>541647331Well mercury most obviously. You would think whoever oversees the labs would ask the student or his advisor why he is fucking around with mercury compounds and if its relevant to his studies or research. When I was a chem student the lab tech would question why you needed even common shit like high molarity acid.
>>541645162"A little tweak of chemistry."
>>541645162Grok synthesize a dimethylmercury chelating agent
>>541647077>surely these gloves will protect me>better clean the lab first not myselfWoman moment
>>541645162Was he fat?
>>541648153remember that most of us are ignorants and tell us what drying chlorinated hydrocarbon with sodium does
>>541645162Stupid, stupid, stupid. A real shame. He’s got an agonizing and slow death ahead of him. An incredibly sad situation for him and everybody he knows.>>541648118She was wearing three layers of latex gloves. A single droplet fell on one of her gloves. It instantly permeated through all three layers of gloves and got absorbed through her skin. That amount of exposure was enough to cause the situation described.
>>541647807Possible ai psychosis philosopher's stone
>>541645162but don't worry the mercury and aluminum in the vaccines is good for you
>>541646488That sounds like the vax.
>>541645162he drove to the hospital and presented himselfhis current lab tests were free of mercurybut that's not a very reliable indicator for this compoundif this retard actually synthesized and exposed himself to dimethyl mercury he's fucked. shelf life of 3-6mo top.
>>541646112You know the guy who was exposed to radiation, Louis slotin who died after being exposed for fucking around with the demon core? That's a walk in the park compared to what this guy is gonna experience
>>541647807
>>541647744nilered knows what hes doing but there is this other channel that started out as a parody of him called nilegreen (now mr green guy) and this guy is a full on retardso it seems nilered has inspired worse people to rise to the occasion with his jokes
I remember forgetting to set my trap up during a distillation and not realizing it until I was getting lightheaded from breathing in the gas. Nothing happened at the time but sometimes I wonder if I'm going to get turbocancer someday.
>>541648153I will dry my chlorinated hydrocarbons in the sodium press and you can't stop me.
Working on an uni lab was really fun, got to see a student turn into the human torch, another getting their daily dose of mercury and a professor shotgun himself with sulphuric acidAlso special mention for the time i found a broken bottle of KCN under a sink.
>>541648791Can explode.
>>541647077It's the chemistry equivalent of those free-climbing retards who go up giant mountains without any safety equipment. Wanted the rush of synthesizing something like that. Probably would have done FOOF next.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxygen_difluoride
>>541646488>>541646302>>541646834It can be treated with standard chelation. Though its really easy for the volume of dimethyl mercury to overwhelm chelation efforts, accumulate in the fatty tissue of the brain and kill the patient.1ml of dimethyl mercury is equivalent to 3.2 grams~400mg is considered a lethal dose, effective chelation treatment can usually get you under 10% of the initial dose after multiple cycles. Going from 3200mg to 320mg could still be lethal. So I'm applauding our hero for volunteering to try out a couple new chelation therapies in rapid succesion. https://henryspiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Rethinking-treatment-of-mercury-poisoning-the-roles-of-selenium-acetylcysteine-and-thiol-chelators-in-the-treatment-of-mercury-poisoning-a-narrative1.pdf
>>541647169>My friend once ordered literal cocaine from the pharma company and it was deliveredlying greaseball
>>541645162I did my PhD in chemistry at Harvard, just down the road. My professor asked me to bubble HCN my first year. Worked with pyrophoric compounds frequently, did work with HF (gas and liquid), HBR, Cl2 (pressurized), various energetic compounds, pure fucking nicotine even. Fuck, some of the old labs in mallonckrodt were situated in the towers above the building (picrel) so if someone researching explosives fucked up they'd only take out the tower. Also, the dirt berm in front of Mallinckrodt in picrel, where Sunny Xie used to have a lab, was also built for explosives research.Not sure when MIT got so faggy that they can't even work with dimethyl mercury.
>>541650614Need a DEA license for controlled substances
>>541647041Probably a grad student or postdoc. There's no one babysitting you in a research lab.
Thank you for your service
I sniffed a chemical I wasn't supposed to, don't remember what it was, and permanently damaged my sense of smell. Pretty big debuff but I can smell a bit and still taste so I'm not too put out about it. Still wish I hadn't done it.
>>541651328Theres no one babysitting you but the lab techs need to have a clue about what youre doing since they have to dispose of your waste and know if youre cooking up some vile shit like toxic rocket fuel alternatives or nerve gas.
>>541646488jewlon will help
>>541653050It was probably some potent sulfur compound.
>>541645162HEWANTEDTO
>>541645162>whyd he do it?Its unclear. Could be he was using it for NMR Hg 199 calibration, could be he was performing synthesis with it (plenty of literature has reactions using it), could be he was trying to poison someone (himself, his boss, some kike target). Could also be his hard/dumbass professor forced him to run a reaction with it. Wouldnt be the first time a prof has basically gotten his grad student killed.And the final possibility is that this was during cleanup when he stumbled upon an OLD vial of the stuff.
>>541646515Probably a pajeet, no big loss.
>>541651248I stick with dimethylsulfoxide personally. Mosquito bite, headache, sore muscles? DMSO.
>>541646112You're probably better off dying from thirst (which is extremely painful way to go)
>>541653317acid, potent acid gases will do thatBet he got lung damage too
>>541646038fpbp
>>541645162he chinese he play joke
>>541653715>Bet he got lung damage too...no that's a result of pneumonia in the navy.Only symptom I ever got was the reduced sense of smell.
>>541651248All of that is less dangerous than dimethyl mercury. It goes right through gloves and skin and if you are exposed will for sure kill you. (We can ameliorate everything on your list.) Further pre covid the grad students basically revolted at how dangerous the lab conditions were and the administration had to step in. Solving the problem by ban some of the most egregious practices, such as working with dimethyl mercury.
>>541646038this.>>541645162>why did he do it?you wouldnt get it
>>541651301Yeah, Coca-Cola needs special permission just to use decocainized leaves.
>>541653715Thats the safest bet but you would think that anyone that works with high mol acids has been taught over and over to never take a big lungful out of a container. Thats why I guessed it was some sulfur shit. You sniff that and you could shit yourself and be none the wiser.
>>541653731Funni stuffI'll see the "why" part.
>>541645162How can someone so smart be so dumb
>>541646112Not painless, death is guaranteed, slow and unpleasant. It is basically like giving yourself rabies or turbo parkinsons. One drop on the skin and you are dead. Too dangerous to even effectively use as a weapon.
>>541653540What's use? Triggers?Whomst is this fella really. Who's his dad mom. Yeah
>>541650519>free-climbing retards who go up giant mountains without any safety equipment
>>541653984you burn the coal, you pay the toll.you get the vax, you pay the tax.
>>541646112Just eat a pineapple pizza if you want to off yourself
>>541649428lol
>>541645162let me guess a jeet trying to raise his izzat a failed so badly he died and contaminated a whole building
>>541648797>instantly15 secondshad she better studied what she was exposing herself to, she wouldnt be dead
name of the chemical genious?
>>541651248>MallinckrodtUse to work for them in St. Louis. Bunch of mad lads. They are a shadow their former selves but man they still do some real shit AMaA I guess
>>541654451>AMaA I guessGo back faggot. Nobody cares.
>>541654451Did you ever see them work on nasty flouride shit?
>>541654451I like their generic adderall better than most others. Sandoz is the best tho.
>>541651248Yeah, they used to make that stuff as a precursor for other organometallics. I'm sure the Jeet working on it was following an ancient prep for something and didn't consider the safety hazards and set up his reaction all wrong. When I was in grad school at (unnamed Ivy, not doxxing myself) there was this foreign guy that once burned his whole arm with Br2 and then in another instance set his fume hood on fire using a heating mantle to reflux diethyl ether of all things. I'm shocked he wasn't just removed from the program.
>>541648786gwhy oh why stop the redditard from drinkin his very own self concocted explosive poison
>>541653286>lab techsWhat the fuck is a lab tech? It's the wild west in US academic chemistry labs
>>541647153The blue flash is from Cherenkov radiation in the nearby people's eyes, not from heat.
>>541654451> >Mallinckrodt>Use to work for them in St. Louis. Bunch of mad lads. They are a shadow their former selvesWW2 Mallinckrodt was seriously toxic chemical badassery.
>>541645162Chink or kike? Which was it?
>>541654086>what use?Its a GOAT calibration standard for Hg199 NMR. Also it has a long history of use as a methylating compound and many reactions and papers use it. Its also an effective deniable poison.
FYI this happened in the Wendlandt Lab, headed by Allison Wendlandt.https://wendlandtlab.com/
>>541647181He made himself look extremely retarded in the newest lead video. He took it down, saying he cut out a bunch of safety steps he took and he's adding them back to portray how serious it is. Hopefully the safety cut confirms he's not actually brain damaged.
Did he make it on purpose or was it accidental? Also if he was ind*an then good.
>>541654570Because it's explosive, and if it explodes, it could kill/injure people and/or damage stuff.
>>541654757Am going with the last one as motive then but fucked up the follow through. Well there you go. TX fren. All sorts of whackos out there, many of them are In some weird places mentally. Vaxxies for one, then there's the leaders and governments full of people hand picked for some reason,,,,exactly.. very odd people.
>>541654851I think it was a Chinese male grad student.
>>541645162Here is how this story likely ends:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7M01jV058
What were those triacs or nuclear soccer ball HE compressive wave triggers Israel stole "were literally given to them" made out of? Seems they couldn't make their own.
This happened in her lab. 100% confirmed
>their initial blood test result, which was received today, shows no sign of exposure to mercury>>541646038
Bidens son got a DuPont completely off a charge of having sex with an infant. Not kidding. Whoops.What a lawyer he was.
>>541645162Triumvirate sounds like a word used by secretive pedo sects.
>>541645162i thouggt mit sudents were supposed to be smart
I swear chemists are like the BASE jumpers or free climbers of the science world.It takes a special kind of brain to be smart enough to tinker with the building blocks of reality and be dumb enough to think that's a great idea.
>>541655262You have an internet-induced mental illness.
>>541647181>why does a chink look like a chinkYou asked this?
>>541647153if there is a HOLE, there is a WILLbreaking news:>under 25 MIT graduate found dead with charcoal burned penis>probable cause: radiation poisoning
>>541646515he wanted to be The Terminatorand run around super fast and shit
>>541648370Sounds like a Spy dream weapon.
>>541655184Is she trans?
>>541655297It's the intersection of cleverness and ego. Risk-taking but without appreciating likely future consequences. Practicing chemistry is a surefire way to shorten your lifespan, even when all safety procedures are followed to the letter. What's necessary is a good memory, large scientific vocabulary, and the will to power.
>>541649952Are there off-duty cops in Brazilian chemistry labs too
>>541646038Came here to post this
>>541654840I watched some of his videos. That guy is the worst thing to ever happen to the study of chemistry.
>>541654840That guy needs to go take a course on how to read copy. He is the worst speaker I have ever heard. The cadence is absolutely maddening.
>>541645162Was he trying to win a Nobel prize? He got a Darwin Award instead… RIP king
>>541647041This is the salient question that remains unsatisfactorily unanswered.>>541651328>There's no one babysitting you in a research lab.That's unadulterated bullshit, if only for the Liability issues.
>>541655767Now that you mention it, yeah he's really fucking shit at reading copy. I guess I always considered that just his weird "YouTube voice" but I'm not going to unhear it now. I don't even know how you can read so poorly.
>>541646488Nah hospital reported no mercury in his blood. He’s a retard but he’s gonna be fine. Can’t say he will be keep his spot after a high profile fuckup like this
>>541655656I'm not a chemist but he always seems to be just doing things by copying instead of understanding the mechanisms. Sometimes he'll make a jump in logic that seems to work alright, so I assume he understands more about the mechanisms going on that he thought would just be boring for a video (then again it could just be other things he's "learned" that he's copying), but he makes chemistry look like it's just throwing shit at the wall and being lost all the time.
>>541646488>while transferring liquid dimethylmercury from a container to a capillary tube, she spilled several drops from the tip of the pipette onto the dorsum of her gloved hand.damn, scary shit
