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Jim Yanik

metspitzer wrote in
:

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:38:14 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article , "HeyBub"
wrote:
metspitzer wrote:

Almost every chemical substance is characterized by "taste," as in
"odorless, colorless, tasteless..."

Taste is a common diagnostic tool.

So you are saying that CSI people routinely lick bones and taste
unknown substances?

Dunno about CSI folks, but I've worked in two labs: Research Clinical
Pathology at a major cancer research hospital and the exploration and
production labs at the world's largest facility for studying the
origin and migration of petroleum.

"Taste" is a fairly common diagnostic tool - sometimes, admittedly,
by accident as you mouth-pipette various substances such as urine,
liquefied feces, pus, and so on.

Wow. Almost thirty years later, I still remember getting reamed, as a
second-year chemistry major, by the proctor in the Organic lab for
doing just that: "NEVER PIPETTE BY MOUTH!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN
THERE!"

How, then, can it be true that....."Taste is a common diagnostic
tool."

that is an assertion that doesn't make any sense,considering the hazards.

samples might be tasted AFTER one actually determines what they are....

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