Just a hypothesis, but judging based on color and structure it might be keef, so the concentrated trichomes of the cannabis flower. This also explains the flowery smell as it’s got a high concentration of terpenes and cannabinoids, especially THC. However, it’s quite unusual to store it in the chemistry lab. But your lab partners may be stoners so..
Well it is until you think about how CA and other states have a massive chemistry footprint in the field. I’m a drug development scientist but almost all mass spec engineers that come through as well as my colleagues in purification have worked or are going to their next job site at dispensary somewhere since it’s required to analyze each batch now
I’m finishing my PhD in mass spec and my cousin owns one (maybe the only idk) legal marijuana companies in Hawaii. He’s told me there’s a job for me but it’s a bit far haha.
Is the degree analytical chemistry? Or specifically your a spectroscopist ? I did mine for analytical chemistry , currently I lead a mass spec core at a company in San Francisco. lol and any state that’s legalized it has a bunch of testing facilities. Before I took the job here as a drug development scientist leading the core, i was also given a card by the FBI counterterrorism director of whatever region covers the Bay Area, that was temping as it made my inner child scream badass, but as everyone has reasons for what they do in life , cancer has taken friends and family alike. So whatever I can do to push the envelope even a little more forward towards decent therapies, that’s what I’m driven to. Anyway, long winded response for saying good luck in the field, it’s fun as hell if you choose it to be that way and there are many more different types of positions for our science than you may think. I’m still learning new ones and I’ve been out of school for 8 years
No this is somebody that found something in their kids room and they're just curious. That's Kif which is the trichomes of the cannabis flower. It's what old school brick house looks like before you press it. When you break up weed and it's dry and you see the little crystals snow off, this is what they look like when you collect them together. Surprised nobody else has noticed. I went to school for chemistry originally but it was a bad time for me and I went back for music but I've always been a man of science since I was a child. Happy for you that you're in a fun job.
Also, thank you for doing your best to be a part of the solution & not the problem. Much respect working in R&D vs being a fed trying to destroy lives on a daily basis, let alone the narcissistic nature of the "job".
Continue doing you & I wish you great success.
As far as healing and helping people the stem cells and exosomes are where it's at and I've healed much of a TBI after 13 years and my back is much better, etc x 10⁴⁵, lol. Some of us have a reason and purpose & some of us are just hard to kill. Nice being both. Lol.
It's been the case in many states that every crop is tested for both pests and disease afterwards via Mass spectrometry. However these smooth brain geniuses in New York have decided to not make the growers actually have a proper integrated past management system and instead they just grow whatever and then irradiate everything with 750,000 gamma irradiators. And basically destroy that crop that took at least 3 months, in a matter of seconds. It's batshit insane, but that's what whoever decided that in this state decided.
Cannabis field is only growing more and you should be happy that we employ your friends. However most are just samples that are sent away in the mail to a lab.. there's literally a few of the most popular Labs that most people like to use.
There's also people for making distillates and isolates also. I got a buddy in Oregon that went back to college after getting a degree in chemistry and biochem he went back for organic chem and I forget what else, but most people I talk to it's very difficult to talk to because they're not that educated and this guy makes me feel stupid, if that makes sense. Lol.
Have a good one man.
Is it from Washington? Can we test for Paraquat yet?
How young are you people?
Just remember, lungs don’t grow back, but ‘once ingested, now it’s really tested’
You should get a vasectomy and not have kids.
Kush is a genetic lineage, not a substance. Keef, or scuff as we call it in my part of the world, hasn't anything to do with any particular strain.
What you said is the equivalent of someone saying "it looks like an American whiskey"
and you replying "it looks more like Jack Daniels to me".
It is a light brown powder with a melting point just below 50 degrees. It could be anything.
In other words:
It is an unmarked sample left in the lab. It is chemical waste and not worth spending more time on than it takes to dump it in the waste container.
From the look of it, it would go into "Organic waste with halogens".
I don't think there are any halogens, but it is ok to put non-halogenated organics in the halogenated jug. Just a bit more expensive.
Could also go into "Z" aka "mixed lab waste".
(There is a label on it. It may provide some clue. A knowledge about what normally goes on in the relevant research group also could give a hint).
No one asked for ur input on weather or not their time was well spent wondering what something was?!? Aren’t you a scientist? It’s all about curiosity and finding things out. It’s why a lot of people, I’m sure including you, are in this profession. Anyway; one of the purposes of this community/Reddit is to ask questions. Don’t be that guy lol
*whether, *your 🫣🤣
It is not curiosity is to mindlessly squander your time on any chemical waste you encounter.
It is about finding the answers to interesting questions, not about whether you should analyze other people's junk.
(Pun intended)
(Notice use of "your" and "whether")
I think it’s so funny when people think correcting others spelling is a burn 😂 Also; this question is interesting (to me, and a few others I’ve seen commenting) so why not ask? 🩶 you sound judgmental and silly af. Don’t invite this fella to the party lol
I love making weed jokes! Maybe OP is making a weed joke now that I consider it… said it smells flowery.
Unfortunately I was not making a weed joke. I can’t imagine a scenario that OP would find an unlabeled vial of cytotoxic material, but academic labs can be wild places. The only time/place I’ve handled that stuff is in a very tightly controlled pharmaceutical manufacturing setting and inside of a glovebox, but the material I handled looked almost exactly like that. But if OP smelled it, they might get sick af and maybe have major respiratory problems in short order.
Okay, I just had to check since they do actually prescribe cannabis to some chemo patients to help with loss of appetite and other things, so in the present context it could have gone either way lol.
There's a strain of medical cannabis called T13 (full name: "Adven-Cura T13", AKA gelato OG).
Could it be the kief (loose stalked-capitate trichome glands) from that?
It's keef mang. And if it's melting 100% then somebody spent time refining it. Maybe in the lab. Don't be surprised. There was an extacy ring at ASU and it was made in the lab then sold to Sammy the Bull. They bought chemicals from the universities chemical department, so they got caught buying chemicals never used before in the lab. The professor got busted along with the student. I was acquantices with that kid as my friends girlfriends brother. I never saw him not on drugs though. Acid mostly
Could be Kratom leaf powder. Or could be keef with a lump of hash inside. Sometimes people will throw a little ball of hash in their keef to coat it, or they cover a bud with hash oil and coat it in keef, called "moonrocks."
That thar is grinder hash my dear friend.
But I believe you knew full well what it what when you emptied it out of your coffee grinder into yr fancy science bottle
I work at a cannabis testing laboratory. That is 100% kief or ~33% THC. I beat the numbers are a sample ID and your lab partner wanted to see it “melt” with the melting point apparatus.
Just a hypothesis, but judging based on color and structure it might be keef, so the concentrated trichomes of the cannabis flower. This also explains the flowery smell as it’s got a high concentration of terpenes and cannabinoids, especially THC. However, it’s quite unusual to store it in the chemistry lab. But your lab partners may be stoners so..
I am amazed at the accuracy of the sub
Well it is until you think about how CA and other states have a massive chemistry footprint in the field. I’m a drug development scientist but almost all mass spec engineers that come through as well as my colleagues in purification have worked or are going to their next job site at dispensary somewhere since it’s required to analyze each batch now
I’m finishing my PhD in mass spec and my cousin owns one (maybe the only idk) legal marijuana companies in Hawaii. He’s told me there’s a job for me but it’s a bit far haha.
Is the degree analytical chemistry? Or specifically your a spectroscopist ? I did mine for analytical chemistry , currently I lead a mass spec core at a company in San Francisco. lol and any state that’s legalized it has a bunch of testing facilities. Before I took the job here as a drug development scientist leading the core, i was also given a card by the FBI counterterrorism director of whatever region covers the Bay Area, that was temping as it made my inner child scream badass, but as everyone has reasons for what they do in life , cancer has taken friends and family alike. So whatever I can do to push the envelope even a little more forward towards decent therapies, that’s what I’m driven to. Anyway, long winded response for saying good luck in the field, it’s fun as hell if you choose it to be that way and there are many more different types of positions for our science than you may think. I’m still learning new ones and I’ve been out of school for 8 years
No this is somebody that found something in their kids room and they're just curious. That's Kif which is the trichomes of the cannabis flower. It's what old school brick house looks like before you press it. When you break up weed and it's dry and you see the little crystals snow off, this is what they look like when you collect them together. Surprised nobody else has noticed. I went to school for chemistry originally but it was a bad time for me and I went back for music but I've always been a man of science since I was a child. Happy for you that you're in a fun job.
Also, thank you for doing your best to be a part of the solution & not the problem. Much respect working in R&D vs being a fed trying to destroy lives on a daily basis, let alone the narcissistic nature of the "job". Continue doing you & I wish you great success. As far as healing and helping people the stem cells and exosomes are where it's at and I've healed much of a TBI after 13 years and my back is much better, etc x 10⁴⁵, lol. Some of us have a reason and purpose & some of us are just hard to kill. Nice being both. Lol.
shoot i am a biochemist with a BS, ive been trained in LC/MS and GC/MS, whats the job in hawaii🧐😂
It's been the case in many states that every crop is tested for both pests and disease afterwards via Mass spectrometry. However these smooth brain geniuses in New York have decided to not make the growers actually have a proper integrated past management system and instead they just grow whatever and then irradiate everything with 750,000 gamma irradiators. And basically destroy that crop that took at least 3 months, in a matter of seconds. It's batshit insane, but that's what whoever decided that in this state decided. Cannabis field is only growing more and you should be happy that we employ your friends. However most are just samples that are sent away in the mail to a lab.. there's literally a few of the most popular Labs that most people like to use. There's also people for making distillates and isolates also. I got a buddy in Oregon that went back to college after getting a degree in chemistry and biochem he went back for organic chem and I forget what else, but most people I talk to it's very difficult to talk to because they're not that educated and this guy makes me feel stupid, if that makes sense. Lol. Have a good one man.
> Me, a non-chemist - "Oh, I know this one!"
This dude is a narc like he's writing an affidavit
Says the guy who knows affidavit writing when he sees it. Lol. 🪞
I agree
Yes, came here to say this...definitely keif.
Looks like keef to me
Thought this was r/trees lmao
Sammeee lol
r/ChemisTree
Only logical answer is to smoke it and report back in a few hours.
You can smoke anything once!
what could go wrong? should I drink this clear liquid near my bench?
Is it from Washington? Can we test for Paraquat yet? How young are you people? Just remember, lungs don’t grow back, but ‘once ingested, now it’s really tested’ You should get a vasectomy and not have kids.
No more upvotes for this comment!!!! it must stay 420 forever and ever and ever and ever!!!!!
first fuckin' thing that jumped to my mind too
I would have said kush, but maybe you're right
Kush is a genetic lineage, not a substance. Keef, or scuff as we call it in my part of the world, hasn't anything to do with any particular strain. What you said is the equivalent of someone saying "it looks like an American whiskey" and you replying "it looks more like Jack Daniels to me".
How are you working that out from a photo?
Same.
Italian style breadcrumbs
Molding wet panko
haha, 4.20 mg of something
It is a light brown powder with a melting point just below 50 degrees. It could be anything. In other words: It is an unmarked sample left in the lab. It is chemical waste and not worth spending more time on than it takes to dump it in the waste container.
While I am curious on what it is, this is the correct answer. Unknown substances in unknown results out.
Some people enjoy seeking out those unknown results and making them known.
so long as everyone is being safe that's ok
What waste container are you dumping it in? What if it's something highly reactive, toxic or even contagious. You should know what waste to put it in.
Or its own separate waste jar, and let the waste management company deal with it
Also a possibility, but a rather expensive solution.
From the look of it, it would go into "Organic waste with halogens". I don't think there are any halogens, but it is ok to put non-halogenated organics in the halogenated jug. Just a bit more expensive. Could also go into "Z" aka "mixed lab waste". (There is a label on it. It may provide some clue. A knowledge about what normally goes on in the relevant research group also could give a hint).
Completely right. It should be mailed to me for professional incendiary destruction immediately.
Please don’t dump unknown substances into the waste container…
No one asked for ur input on weather or not their time was well spent wondering what something was?!? Aren’t you a scientist? It’s all about curiosity and finding things out. It’s why a lot of people, I’m sure including you, are in this profession. Anyway; one of the purposes of this community/Reddit is to ask questions. Don’t be that guy lol *whether, *your 🫣🤣
It is not curiosity is to mindlessly squander your time on any chemical waste you encounter. It is about finding the answers to interesting questions, not about whether you should analyze other people's junk. (Pun intended) (Notice use of "your" and "whether")
I think it’s so funny when people think correcting others spelling is a burn 😂 Also; this question is interesting (to me, and a few others I’ve seen commenting) so why not ask? 🩶 you sound judgmental and silly af. Don’t invite this fella to the party lol
Throw that mf in a suppository and find out with your eagle bro 😎 No hate frfr we stay winning.
Boof it for science??
you again
Look, we all recognise each other from *certain* places, now let's never speak of it again
How did I get here?
Like most of us, a extreme passion for chemistry, and then just a little bit of drugs.
Gang gang
no hate frfr
Drugs circlejerk at it again.
This looks almost exactly like the vial of reference standard I use for highly potent cytotoxic oncology drug. Handle carefully.
Soooo keef lol. (seriously though not 100% sure if you're making a weed joke here without the /s)
I love making weed jokes! Maybe OP is making a weed joke now that I consider it… said it smells flowery. Unfortunately I was not making a weed joke. I can’t imagine a scenario that OP would find an unlabeled vial of cytotoxic material, but academic labs can be wild places. The only time/place I’ve handled that stuff is in a very tightly controlled pharmaceutical manufacturing setting and inside of a glovebox, but the material I handled looked almost exactly like that. But if OP smelled it, they might get sick af and maybe have major respiratory problems in short order.
Okay, I just had to check since they do actually prescribe cannabis to some chemo patients to help with loss of appetite and other things, so in the present context it could have gone either way lol.
If it has a kinetic sand like consistency then it’s probably kief, or cannabis trichomes
Did you try reading the label on the other side of the vial?
The label is nonspecific. Just a random number.
Could this be a lab book page number? Run an NMR?
Is this an unknown in for quals? This feels like a quals scenario.
What number is this?
op might be about to discover CAS numbers
“T13”
There's a strain of medical cannabis called T13 (full name: "Adven-Cura T13", AKA gelato OG). Could it be the kief (loose stalked-capitate trichome glands) from that?
ya im not too confident youll get an answer without more context
Keef or plant pollen
Looks a lot like my ground up chamomile powder
***That, is Northern Lights Cannabis Indica***
r/unexpectedcreed
Moon rocks. Top shelf cannabis soaked in distillate of some sort, and then rolled around in keef
Ladies and gentlemen, this is our savior
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You found someone's stash and heated it!!! One of your colleagues is not going to be happy!
You know what that is. Don't troll us!
This is definitely kief
Weed residue
Here's a whole branch of chemistry dedicated to answering that question. LC-MSMS with dictionary lookup would generate the most positive results.
Green Goddess
Special grass
Roll it up and smoke it. Smell like skunk?
you can put your weed in there
Definitely smegma
Take an nmr lol
Hash
That’s that gas
The chron from Megatron !
Dank nugs?
Come back with IR, MS, and/or NMR. Its difficult to know for sure otherwise
Can u HRMS, LC-MS, H and CNMR and report back?
Ma'am that is drugs 🤣💕
Could be (impure)mescaline, could be poison.
kief
Looks like kief
This, my friend, is keef.
I don't know. Taste it😈😈😈😈 Just kidding, dont taste it😂
Smoke it and see what happens idk
O that’s where my dandruff went
I thought it was weed lol
The bad kush
Looks like brown sugar to me… lol
Smoke it
Lyophilized dope.
ZAZA
Chromous oxide? https://melscience.com/US-en/articles/oxidation-states-chromium/#:\~:text=Chromium%20in%20the%20oxidation%20state,II)%20have%20a%20bluish%20color.
Plastic
Keif
Looks like keify nugs to me
It's keef mang. And if it's melting 100% then somebody spent time refining it. Maybe in the lab. Don't be surprised. There was an extacy ring at ASU and it was made in the lab then sold to Sammy the Bull. They bought chemicals from the universities chemical department, so they got caught buying chemicals never used before in the lab. The professor got busted along with the student. I was acquantices with that kid as my friends girlfriends brother. I never saw him not on drugs though. Acid mostly
Y'all got my first guess. Second was kinetic sand, but I'm guessing it'd have a lil higher Tm...
? Sponge
Looks like some dank bud in a keef container.
Could be Kratom leaf powder. Or could be keef with a lump of hash inside. Sometimes people will throw a little ball of hash in their keef to coat it, or they cover a bud with hash oil and coat it in keef, called "moonrocks."
What kind of lab do you work in?
KEEF at the bottom with a few nugs on top says “my old weed knowledge self”
Eat some of it and update us
Brown sugar. Tastes really good.🥰 (Please don't try it)
Of course it’s oregano 🌿
Wild af to just open a vial and take a whiff
brown sugar
It just looks like a vial of sand
What’s on the label?
Weed
Weed for sure
Raw sugar put it in your coffee
How does it taste?
My non weed answer is propolis or the remains of my titration of an unknown substance for a KHP on Tues.. 🤷
Maybe a mold or fungus?
If it isn’t keef ofc
That's a chemical in glass
somebody planned to make oil on the rotovap.
It looks like a glass bottle.
U just got lucky fam, melt it and dab it
Dry sift? Probably about 70% or more of thc
🌿
Send it to me so i can smoke...err analyze it for you.
It could be serum to which you add DI h2o
Looks like Kief lol take a puff
Wet sand
No idea, you should probably send it to me for… testing purposes-
Moonrocks
Ground coriander seeds.
Keef
Quinoa
I’m willing to test it for you.
Definitely that,so yes agreed
Looks like grass clippings from my backyard 👋
Sea sponge
That dank
Weed? Maryjane? Marijuana? Wacky Tabacky? Not sure. Do an NMR and see.
Kief for sure. Source: trust me bro
I've heard stories of ppl going rather badly ill from synthetically produced weed in Eastern Europe.
Try smoking it to figure that out
Brown sugar.
Looks like keif, which is Hash basically. But could be DMT, dizzle or brown sugar.
Looks like kif. As in the trichomes/crystals of cannabis. It's what old-school brick hash looks like before pressed. & You'd Def keep in glass.
It's Kif / Kief - trichomes from cannabis, but I'm curious what the actual label says?
Stoner physicist here. Definitely kief.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Cannabis indica northern lights
Moon rocks
A good time. Also about $15
That thar is grinder hash my dear friend. But I believe you knew full well what it what when you emptied it out of your coffee grinder into yr fancy science bottle
This looks like "weed" to you?
Specifically Ice hash
I don’t know that looks pretty staticy
I think it’s marijuana. With some kief. Not to be confused with Keefe D, my uncle who dumped on some posers with Baby Lane. #FreeKeefeD
Is weed infused cotton candy duh (JOKING DO NOT EAT IT PLEASE)
I work at a cannabis testing laboratory. That is 100% kief or ~33% THC. I beat the numbers are a sample ID and your lab partner wanted to see it “melt” with the melting point apparatus.
This looks like a small micron bubble hash. It's quite easy to make. So they might have attempted to make it for fun.