Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Union College Organic Chemistry Professor Joanne Kehlbeck, left, and student Devin Harrison look at plant extracts on top of a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer in one of the labs at the college on July 7.