Distressed doing dishes? Then consider Francis W. Platt's job at the General Electric Research Laboratory here and take heart. For eight hours each work day, Francis washes flasks, beakers, test tubes, and other intricate glassware used by laboratory chemists. To make matters worse, ordinary soap and water won't suffice. To remove chemicals sediments, alcohol and caustic potash (KOH) are also used. Some $3,000 worth of glassware is washed each week in the sinks at the laboratory's Chemical Department, workers there estimate

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