• Question: What is the most random thing you have used in a experiment?

    Asked by EmmaIsAmazing to Craig, Flavia, Giuditta, Jack, Sheona on 17 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Giuditta Perversi

      Giuditta Perversi answered on 17 Nov 2015:

      I think that a cooking microwave oven will be my winner forever, I made a material inside that and it actually worked!

      Another really random thing was a really little magnet from meccano that I used in a synchrotron to align my crystal with the magnetic field and do the experiment properly!

    • Photo: Flavia de Almeida Dias

      Flavia de Almeida Dias answered on 17 Nov 2015:

      I have used duct tape here and there, but I guess at his point this isn’t random, but expected! 🙂

      I have used hair ties to arrange cables before when I was an undergrad and we ran out of cable ties.

    • Photo: Craig Bull

      Craig Bull answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      I once used a scaffolding pole

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