Welcome to Erle's Fun room:
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Some Trivia
Some Punch Lines
Unusual Chemical Names
Ingredients:
To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat-transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr add one, two, and three with constant agitation.
In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm add four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogeneous.
To reactor #2 add eight followed by three equal portions of the homogeneous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add nine and ten slowly with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown.
Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25 oC heat-transfer table allowing the product to come to equilibrium.
1. Mole Day is a chemistry holiday that takes place on October 23. The day celebrates chemistry, remember the mole concept, and give "honor" to the mole concept creator, Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1858). The actual holiday begins at 6:02 a.m. and ends at 6:02 p.m
2. Joseph Priestley, the English chemist, invented carbonated water. It was a by-product of his investigations into the chemistry of air.
3. Nobel prizes are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economic science. Economic science was added in 1969.
4. As a boy, Charles Darwin was so enamored with chemistry that his young friends nicknamed him Gas.
5. The famous Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin was also a respected chemistry professor in St. Petersburg.
6. Madame Marie Curie was the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Her first was in physics (1903) and the second in chemistry (1911). Reportedly, she used part of the prize money to re-wallpaper and to install a modern bathroom into her Paris home.
Q: Why do chemists like nitrates so much?
A: They're cheaper than day rates.
Q: What do chemists use to make guacomole?
A: Avogadros.
Be + Er -----> Beer
What are?
Q. Ba(Na)2
A. Banana
Q. NaCl(aq), NaCl(aq), C C C C C C C
A. Saline, saline, over the seven Cs
Q. What do you do when you find a dead chemist?
A. Barium.
Q. What is the purpose of a doctor?
A. Helium.
Q. What do you call a convict who dresses up as a clown?
A. Silicon.
Q: What did one titration say to the other?
A: Let's meet at the endpoint!
Q: What do you pay a policeman attending evening chemistry classes?
A: Copper Nitrate
Antipain
Antipain is a protease inhibitor, which means it prevents proteins from being degraded. Despite its promising name, it is a very toxic compound, and it causes severe itch or pain (!) when contacted with the skin.
Arsole
Yes, believe it or not, there is actually a molecule called Arsole... and it's a ring! It is the arsenic equivalent of pyrrole, and although it is rarely found in its pure form, it is occasionally seen as a sidegroup in the form of organic arsolyls. Contrary to popular belief, however, the arsoles are not aromatic... Furthermore, the structure where arsole is fused to a benzene ring is called 'benzarsole', and apparently when it's fused to 6 benzenes is called 'sexibenzarsole', although that molecule hasn't been synthesised yet. Another well known poisonous arsenic molecule is the simple hydride, called 'arsine', with formula AsH4.
BON-BONs
These ring structures are not what makes French sweets taste sweet. Heterocyclic dimers like the one shown in the picture (where you vary the R, R' and R" groups) are named from the fact that the ring atoms in sequence spell out BON-BON.
Buckminster Fullerene
This is the famous soccerball-shaped molecule that won its discoverers the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1996. It is named after the architect Buckminster Fuller who designed the geodesic dome exhibited at Expo '67 in Montreal, from which Sir Harry Kroto got the idea how 60 Carbon atoms could be arranged in a perfectly symmetrical fashion. Because the name of the molecule is a bit of a mouthful, it is often referred to just as a Bucky Ball. It's also known as 'Footballene' by some researchers.
Crapinon
Crapinon (also known as Sanzen) is another molecule with an excellent name, and is apparently used therapeutically as an anticholinergic. These are drugs which dry secretions, increase heart rate, and decrease lung constriction. More importantly, they also constipate quite strongly - so 'crappy-non' is most appropriate. It would be nice to think that this molecule could find an alternative use as a toilet cleaner (as in "Who's been crapinon the seat?").
Dinile
Why did the two cyanide groups go to see a psychiatrist? Because they were both 'in dinile'... In fact, dinile is another name for butanedinitrile or succinonitrile, and is a waxy solid that if ingested forms cyanides in the body.
Dogcollarane
Dogcollaranes are a group of molecules made from alternating bicyclo [2,2,0] and norbornyl segments. When there are 24 such components, the ends can be linked together to form a ring, which looks like a dogcollar. Unfortunately, although many of the intermediate structures have been made, none of the dogcollaranes have yet been synthesised.
Jesterone
This playful and mischievous molecule is found in a fungus, Pestalotiopsis jesteri, which lives inside yew trees.
Penguinone
This gets its name from the similarity of its 2D structure to a penguin. The effect is slightly lost in the 3D model, though. It's real name is: 3,4,4,5-tetramethylcyclohexa-2,5-dienone.
R-CMP
R-CMP is actually short for R-cytidine monophosphate
SEX
SEX is the official abbreviation of sodium ethyl xanthate, which is a flotation agent used in the mining industry. Apparently you can get SEX in both solid and liquid forms and according to Australia's National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme signs of high exposure to SEX include 'dizziness, tremors, difficulty breathing, blurred vision, headaches, vomiting and death'. Sound familiar...?
Warfarin
This molecule sounds like it could be a warfare agent, and it is...if you're a rat. It's a rat poison which stops the blood clotting, so the rats bleed to death. It also has medical uses in blood thinning and clot prevention.
