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Stuff is constantly found.
When I was an undergrad, an emiterous professor passed away. They went back into his 'closet lab' and there was stuff that had been there so long, it had crystalized... and that material wasn't known to do that! The crystallographer was beside himself as he was young and now he had material for papers till he retired.
I myself in grad school used to 'raid' retiring profs labs for chemicals, supplies, and fixable equipment. Ended up rolling an older Hitachi TEM across campus on a pallet jack. Found plenty of containers of picric acid that had crystalized over time.
Things used to be much more lax and stuff gets lost on shelves or in freezers. Nothing nefarious.
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1967 912 with centerlocks… 10 years and still in pieces!
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