He liked to work out, and he posted a jokey photograph that showed him flexing his triceps in front of a lab bench.

Warm and modest, he would sit on the lab bench chatting informally to his students long after the lecture or practical had ended.

Given the predicted density, loops small enough to fit on a lab bench would expect to see about one monopole event per year.

I carefully tipped the cylinder upside down, and out came a whitish powder down onto the lab bench.

C, allow instruments to be made small enough to fit on a lab bench, and safe to operate in a typical lab environment.