Cam may have synthesized a carcinogenic azo dye. I think we synthesized it intentionally in an organic lab once but if you got it unexpectedly it could be hard to tell which one of the potentially carcinogenic compounds you made. That could be bad. It's to bad they are corcinogenic as they made realy great red flags.
I mean, most of them aren't carcinogenic. It usually depends on what's used to make them, which, I mean, makes _sense_ ; if you use uranium to make glass, your glassware will be radioactively carcinogenic.
I have watched this live, right when I started my biochemistry bachelor and was wondering if something like this would happen to me. 3 years later... I made something red that wasn't supposed to be red. It was most likely contaminated with a red azo dye we made a week before. No amount of cleaning is enough. That stuff will get into your next synthesises.
The Year: 2744. High Imperial Archivist Of The Before-Time, Jordrell Aelex, is finishing up xir workday analysing the few data-blocks that survived The Great E-Purge of 2299; just before turning off the omniview for the evening, a file called 'RDVL047K8511: Early C21 Broadcast?' finishes the auto-recovery and flashes onscreen. Aelex watches open-mouthed for a moment. "This person...could xi have been The Progenitor Of The Oil? Is this the Prophesied One? The origin of our FTL conduit-matter?" xi mutters before frantically opening a psycom channel to the Overpriest...
Red objects reflect light in the red part of the spectrum (possibly also a bit of orange, depending on what he meant by bright red) and absorb all other visible light. I am also curious as to what sort of organic compounds would have that particular property.
