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First day of gas laws unit in a high school chemistry class...

Cou - 20-2-2015 at 18:50



(if you are gonna move my posts to Whimsy again, PLEASE give me access to whimsy so I can, you know, actually SEE my thread?)



[Edited on 21-2-2015 by Cou]

Etaoin Shrdlu - 20-2-2015 at 19:33

My personal favorite is "backside attack" in organic chemistry.

Magpie - 20-2-2015 at 20:09

Cou, I trust you already new about the achievements of Gay-Lussac. So this is probably not funny to you. But to those jocks, seeing this for the first time, it's funny, and they couldn't care less (or even understand) what he contributed science. :(

Is this your message, or did I misinterpret?

This is what I think is his outstanding achievement (among many):

In 1808 Gay-Lussac announced what was probably his single greatest achievement: from his own and others' experiments he deduced that gases at constant temperature and pressure combine in simple numerical proportions by volume, and the resulting product or products—if gases—also bear a simple proportion by volume to the volumes of the reactants. This conclusion subsequently became known as “Gay-Lussac’s law.”

-Wikipedia

[Edited on 21-2-2015 by Magpie]

Mailinmypocket - 20-2-2015 at 20:24

Maybe if they taught some French and how to pronounce words it would have been less interesting to the jocks etc

[Edited on 21-2-2015 by Mailinmypocket]

j_sum1 - 20-2-2015 at 23:06

Cou. Just ask for access to whimsy. I am sure a mod will oblige.