Another ingredient of the elixir is cobra's blood. A bowl contains 10 spoons of snake blood. The scientist has two ladles with capacities of 3 spoons and 4 spoons. How can he measure exactly 5 spoons of blood? The solution must be completed in no more than 5 pourings, otherwise the blood will coagulate and become useless.
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