Life in the Lab: You know your workplace is cold when...

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..you find yourself using the freshly-made bottle of NaOH solution as a handwarmer.

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Oh yes. I figured you meant during solvation. I was offering a slower thermal reaction. And yes, magnesium is difficult to work with. But so is the sudden heat output of the NaOH reaction. I guess I was trying to be silly.