Why don't you have some lab pics! I've collected these this last semester in my Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Practice classes. Sadly I do not recall what all of the substances in the pictures are because the prettiest ones were ridiculously complicated coordination complexes but I'll caption what I can without my notes.
Immature humor anyone? This icky tin of gross horror contains Ramsay grease (a glassware lubricant) and six months later I'm still not over the joke as I ADORE Gordon Ramsay.
Next up are some notes and drawings. My teachers demand that we do a LOT of our assignments by hand including apparatus sketches and graphs. The latter I hated with a burning passion but the former easily became a cherished part of lab study/prep time.
Below: a more sophisticated apparatus which a friend helped me set up as I have zero spatial intelligence and I am not to be trusted with translating schemes and designs into 3D objects.
In the bottom left corner you can see a mesmerizingly blue solution being filtered at atmospheric pressure and a very stinky ammonia compound in the moment of its creation. Both products were funky-named complexes I can't pinpoint from memory.
This fills me with tons more joy and aesthetic pleasure than it probably should. Yves Klein Blue is my favourite colour in this world and- I mean, look at it. I'm pretty sure I wore matching nail polish on that day.
Pictured below is basic-as-hell blue vitriol (copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate) recrystallisation.
And easily my favourite picture in which a layer of indigo product forms atop a deep green solution. Magic.
