#glassware is really expensive so my lab had some custom shit inherited from another lab whose pi had retired like 20 years before

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Yeah a lot of universities used to have their own glassblowers. Or you would do it yourself for simpler things. This is still taught for stuff like making your own pipettes or ampules but I don't know anyone that makes their own distillation glassware or whatever.

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor