• Question: Why do you have to wear glasses when you are doing science?

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      Asked by Bubble pops to James on 16 Mar 2015.
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        James Coombs OBrien answered on 16 Mar 2015:

        To protect my eyes.

        I use some quite harmful chemicals that if they got into your eyes would be very painful and could even blind you!
        We want to make sure this doesn’t happen and it hardly ever does because we wear plastic glasses!

        Thanks!

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