These are two pictures of the same solvent pot. The opening of the bomb flask is very small, so only skinny things can fit through, such as the stir bar (the black pill shaped object). To fit the sodium (drying agent) through the hole it was rolled between two fingers in the dry box for form a long skinny cylinder of metal. After stirring for prolonged periods of time, the ends of the soft sodium metal are warped from banging into the sides of the flask to give the unusual shape shown in the pictures above.
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