Dropped Needle On Floor

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Dropped needle on floor.

Get a flashlight and darken the room. I have tall carpet all over the house i was walking bare foot on my room when i felt as if i ran a tiny knife under my big toe i kneed but i did not see a thing less find it i was afraid but i ran the palm of my hand across that section and it pinched me i looked no luck. How do you find a sewing needle on a carpeted floor. I was felting and saw that the needle snapped but i don t think it s stuck in the thing i was felting.

I ve been looking very very carefully but i still can t. I have been lucky so far that it has been found in the sofa on the floor on my sleeve under the sofa how does that happen. I m about to do an inoculation and i dropped the syringe on the floor no needle it shipped separate have to put on before inoculating my question is should i trust just flame sterilization of the needle to be sufficient or should i dip the entire syringe in denatured alcohol 100 to use it s solvent properties to remove any nasties that got on to the body of the syringe. Which leaves one choice left.

Put the flashlight down at carpet level and shine the beam across the carpet. Just dig out a trusty magnet and they come right up. Fortunately i had already dosed and also it was past expiration date. Well no more grab a magnet and just wave it over the pins and they come right up.

Any suggestions on how to prevent a dropped. What is the probability that the needle will lie across a line between two strips. It s somewhere on my desk or on the floor. Apparently the needle shines in the light.

Will a magnet pick it up. Well the insulin bottle came out at the same time fell on the floor and broke. In mathematics buffon s needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by georges louis leclerc comte de buffon. What should i do.

Same thing with thumb tacks if they are all metal. I ve been crawling around trying to find it to no avail. If you have hardwood flooring it s possible that the needle is lodged between boards or by the baseboard. I don t know if the flashlight trick will work for that.

About 1 2 an inch. Suppose we have a floor made of parallel strips of wood each the same width and we drop a needle onto the floor. Or a magic needle finding spell. I dropped a needle on a carpeted floor.

It s the very end of the needle so it s very tiny. Buffon s needle was the earliest problem in geometric probability. It s really small and i ran a strong magnet over it and nothing happened. If you have a strong magnet put it on a short pole and sweep the floor and furniture with it.

I was at work pulling out my cell phone from the same pocket as my insulin bottle was in.