Recent content by Cringle

Thank you all so much for all your replies and advice! So my question has been answered re: the table flow but also lots of other potential (probably more important) issues and I will look into what has been suggested. By way of answering some of your questions: I think this may be the root of...

The air is removed from the building. The rest of the system is being looked into but at the moment re: the filters I don't know, although I wouldn't have thought so as the whole set up is fairly new. My main concern for the time being is whether the perspex sheets blocking the holes might...

Hello everyone. First post! I am struggling to understand an issue in our (histology) lab. We use large downdraft tables which extract the noxious substances we use, mainly formaldehyde, while we process surgical samples. These tables have a steel cover with lots of holes about 5mm diameter...

Hi everyone! I am a biomedical scientist who wants to know more about the physics that occurs around us in our lab! This is related to a number of issues that have happened, a few recently, and how I can try to learn a bit of basic physics and try to understand what is going on! Thanks! Cringle