The laboratory is much like an old chemistry classroom, somewhat cramped for space and full of test tubes and serious looking people in white coats.

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In my discipline, for example, each school differs slightly on how to teach general chemistry, varies in where inorganic chemistry is placed in the plan of study, and has different laboratory equipment and thus varying lab curricula, etc.

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In Hambrecht's view consumers' and policymakers' command of chemistry is frequently limited to vague memories of exploding beakers and funny smells in a high school laboratory.

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