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I kept expecting Milla Jovovich to bust into this labyrinth of labs
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"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble…." The drips down the wall from previous reactive experiments, together with the electrical code… er, lapses, remind me of some of my earlier work…. are they hiring?
The next Starbucks? =8-oSo that’s where the boomerang wound up!!
You are going to tell us the rest of the story, no?-)
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There’s safety instructions in plastic on the wall, like this is a legitimate business. I hope they save a lot by cutting their cleaning budget because… yuk! After looking at this for 10 minutes, I realize that the thing is *on* and "working," whatever that means. Heating coils at the bottom, heat a clear fluid. The cooling chambers at the top are fed (presumably cold) liquid from the left and discharging that fluid into the basin in the left what looks like water. It’s a double-distillery of some sort.
The thing that completely stumps this chump is that it looks like the drain that would catch the precipitate from the top just dumps it on the table top, but that doesn’t seem to be happening.
If I had to guess, I’d say this is how they test drinking water. The colored chemicals are used to detect other chemicals after they concentrate and/or separate impurities by distillation. But really, I have no idea.
Hints? I love these puzzle pictures.
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I’m thinking that the two glass contraptions are not connected in the middle and that they are duplicates. The funny hanging-down glass arm thing (vent?) is in front of, and not over, the little glass wart on the side of the bulbous bottom chamber that looks like a safety overflow that drains to the sink. Some tricky photographer lined them up in the picture to confuse people.
The top piece is variation on a Liebig condenser that vents at the *bottom* instead of the top. It vents into the room (hence all the mold) and has been doing so for a long time (lots of mold), so the escaping vapor is probably relatively harmless, like steam. Why the bottom? Is it venting a heavier gas than the one being condensed and reheated in the apparatus? It looks like they are trying to to boil something for a long time without drying it out.
It’s so darn cool that you work with things that search for a fifth fundamental force.
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/66353259@N00] > The cooling chambers at the top are fed (presumably cold) liquid from the left and discharging that fluid into the basin in the left what looks like water. It’s a double-distillery of some sort.
I think they just connected the Liebig condensers’ cooling water circuits in series.
The setup might simply be a water purifier, with the units duplicated to increase the distilled / purified water output per unit time.
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