As someone who worked in nuclear power you should definitely NOT pipette by mouth.

Curie, Death,

Be "alpha" in the grave 😎😎 supaaa

I've gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second

underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn't be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4593645

chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.

"heats up lunch with a Bunsen burner"

My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had "no mouth pipetting" signs up in the late 90s.

Still better than first phosphorus discovery

Dunno about now, but I had to pipette stuff in BTech. That's less than 10 years ago.