Don't try this at home.

So I was in the lab, melting rock powders into glass. We use little metal crucibles to melt the powder and then pour it into molds, but often, a few drops of motlen material get stuck in the crucible and don'y make it into the mold. leaving glass beads inside the crucibles when they cool. O

obviously we don't want to leave them in there to contaminate the next sample, so there i was trying to get these little glass beads out of the crucible. now, I can't use a metal tool for thsi because the crucibles are very expensive and we don't want to scratch them, so i was trying to pot the glass off with my fingernail. I gat a couple of beads off but there was one in there that wouldn't come unstuck.

So i thought to myself "i bet if I push the loose piece of glass against the one that is stuck it will come off", so i stuck my finger in there and pushed on it, and the piece of glass instantly embedded itself in my fingertip.

Now, I needed a band aid but i didn't know where to find one so i made my own band-aid out of duct tape and a piece of a tissue. Pretty brilliant, eh? if only I could say the same thing for my original idea.