- Whoa. So I could have been keeping my cells in culture alive with Nazi gas cylinders? That is wild, and apparently not common knowledge among biologists...at least not this one. #SciSky 🧫🧪
- common knowledge among chemists: compressed gas cylinders basically last forever. some date back to WW2. those used in Nazi Germany (Linde) were marked with swastikas. after the war, the swastikas were defaced into "windowpanes" ⊞ — you can still find such cylinders in the wild today. #chemsky ⚗️🧪