Re: [ccp4bb]: shipping-dry-dewar-out-of-Heathrow

[Sax Mason <mason@ill.fr>]

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re Peter Keller's comment below

In a similar vein, remember that crystals in alcoholic mother liquor 
can cause trouble, caused a visitor a long detour via another airline 
recently.
Sax Mason



Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:37:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: Peter Keller <keller@ebi.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: shipping-dry-dewar-out-of-Heathrow
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Yves Muller wrote:

> Dear all,
> I apologize to those this does not concern. I wonder if anybody could
> give me some advise on how to ship a CP100 dry dewar out of Heathrow on

Another tip: be careful what you say abont the sample composition. One
person I know got stuck like this because someone at the airline insisted
on checking each element of organometallic crystals that were being taken
to a neutron source. The airline's response went something like this:

"... but it contains hydrogen: it might explode, and it contains
phosphorus so it might spontaneously combust, and it contains ...."

I'm sure you get the idea.

Regards,
Peter.

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