I Lost Some Glassware

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I Lost Some Glassware

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Look at these round-bottom flasks just chilling on the shelf, completely empty and unused! Any chemist worth their periodic table knows these bad boys are supposed to be filled with colorful, bubbling concoctions or at least something that might explode with the slightest provocation. The true joke? The lab manager who said "I lost some glassware" when clearly they've just arranged these beautiful spherical vessels as decorative items. That's like having a Ferrari and only using it to store groceries in the passenger seat. The empty space inside those flasks is practically begging for some dangerous synthesis experiment!

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