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Subject: FW: [DCHAS-L] [DCHAS-L] EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: [DCHAS-L] Pentadecafluorooctanoyl chloride.
Date: Friday, May 28, 2021 at 9:36:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] [DCHAS-L] EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: [DCHAS-L] Pentadecafluorooctanoyl chloride.
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 10:21:14 -0400
Author: ILPI Support

From: Jennifer Gile <jen.gile**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] What's in the bottle?
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 09:43:14 -0400
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
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Thank you for all the replies.

Dan, wow. This is next level. Thank you! I'm going to go over these documents and look into the kit. I will definitely reach out if I have questions.

Folks, I assure you I've done everything on my end to determine the contents of the thirty or so bottles without exposure. Attempts to contact the former PI for information have been unsuccessful (to clarify: contact was successful. They didn't remember what was in the bottle). I've gone through stacks of old notebooks (and I am grateful for those- they were very helpful) My department chair looked into the digital footprint. Happily as of right now only one remains unknown - even that one is providing clues just sitting there. (For example - whatever it is in the erlenmeyer flask is still sealed with parafilm so we can rule out most organic solvents)

I appreciate the years of experience and expertise in this group. Thank you.
Jennifer.

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 7:23 AM <testtube**At_Symbol_Here**ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Hi Jennifer,

My name is Dan Keenan. I write the book and make the charts for the Hazcat System. A lot of university waste facilities use the hazcat kit to ID unknowns. We also produce a kit to ID RCRA Waste Characteristics and DOT Hazard Classifications. Hazmat clean-up companies use this system. Check out the charts in the dropbox here https://www.dropbox.com/t/uygPjLhNRbGh9HrP - these are a few of the charts that go with the system. You can check out the kits at www.hazcat.com

Give me a call if you have any questions-

Dan Keenan

925-878-7110

From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU> On Behalf Of Jennifer Gile
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021 9:01 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] What's in the bottle?

All,

Now that the strangest academic year in my experience has come to a close, I'm keeping busy doing a bit of housekeeping.. I found a box of bottles on a shelf last week, only to find the bottles in the box are all filled with research results. Few were labeled.

The faculty member that made these is no longer with the university and left some time ago. They had a wide range of research interests (hormones to organometallics) which complicates matters.

My question for each of you today: how do you go about identifying unknowns?

I'm working with folks on campus to see if there's any digital footprint of what these may be, in the meantime I would like to figure out what these are. Please save conversations of housekeeping, record keeping, and best practices for a different thread, with respect, that ship did sail. I think these are all very important topics; at the moment I'm interested in getting these bottles identified and packaged for disposal.

My thanks in advance!

Jennifer.

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