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Chemistry
Revisited
 Some oxygen
molecules help fires burn while others help to make water. So,
sometimes it's brother against brother.
 When you
smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.
 H 2 O is
hot water, and CO 2 is cold water.
 Radioactive
cats have 18 half-lives.
 A
super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.
 To most
people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions
are things that are still all mixed up.
 Experiments
should be reproducible. They should all fail in the same way.
 Activation
Energy is the useful quantity of energy available in one cup of coffee.
How
chemists do it..
Chemists
do it reactively.
Chemists do it in test tubes.
Chemists do it in equilibrium.
Chemists do it in the fume hood.
Chemists do it in an excited state.
Chemists do it periodically on table.
Chemists do it organically and inorganically.
Electrochemists do it with greater potential.
Polymer chemists do it in chains.
Pharmaceutical chemists do it with drugs.
Analytical chemists do it with precision and accuracy.
You Might Be a Chemist
if..
you
carry your lab safety goggles around with you at all times, just in
case...
you
don't drink water, you drink H 2 O.
you
start disagreeing with movies and TV shows on scientific aspects.
you
carry a base solution around with you at all times, just in case one of
those freak Hydrochloric acid spills happen.
you
become very agitated when people refer to air as Oxygen, and proceed to
list all of the components of air.
instead
of writing ozone you write O 3 .
you
start referring to the smell of nail polish remover as an acetone
smell.
you
no longer ask for Tylenol, you ask for acetaminophen.
you
actually enjoy going to Chemistry class.
you
think a mole is a unit of amount, rather than a small furry animal in
your lawn.
you
pronounce unionized as "un-ion-ized", instead of "union-ized".
you
wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.
you
start explaining the condensation of water vapour every time your soda
can has water drops and people think water is coming out of the can.
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