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(53,475 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)A cop pulls him over and asks "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Werner replies "No, but I know exactly WHERE I am"
tclambert
(11,085 posts)and asks, "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Einstein says, "Relative to what?"
tclambert
(11,085 posts)demands to look in his trunk, takes a look, comes back and says, "Do you know you have a dead cat in there?"
Schrödinger says, "Well, NOW I do."
kairos12
(12,858 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)and says, "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Descartes says, "I think not" and vanishes.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)"Great, now I am lost!"
lastlib
(23,224 posts)Teacher drew a compound and asked us to identify it. It led off with a Flouride molecule, then a Propyl compound, then four human stick figures, and last, an ether compound. What was it?
A "Fluoride-propyl people ether"!
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Everything else is in the periphery.
Aristus
(66,328 posts)One turns to the other and says: "I just lost an electron!"
The second one replies: "Are you sure?"
The first one says: "I'm positive!"
marym625
(17,997 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 19, 2015, 11:08 AM - Edit history (1)
asks "How much for a beer?" The bartender says, "For you-no charge".
A physicist was reading a book about Helium and he couldn't put it down.
What was fed to the monkeys in the chem lab each day - BaNa2
If H20 is water, what is H204 - bathing, drinking, cleaning, washing, etc.
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)First one says to the barkeep "I'll have a glass of H2O."
Second one laughs and says "That's great! I'll have a glass of H2O too!"
Of course, when he drinks it, he promptly dies.
God, that's an old chestnut.
-- Mal
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)Her extra credit question was to write the chemicals represented by her name.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Na (sodium)
P (phosphorus)
O (oxygen)
Li (lithium)
Ta (tantalum)
N (nitrogen)
O (oxyegn again)
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)You would have received extra credit for that answer!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I never saw it either, but that meme, y'know, went viral.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Na - Sodium
Po - Polonium
Li - Lithium
Ta - Tantalum
No - Nobelium (this is a synthetic element, so nitrogen and oxygen would be more stable)
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)The bartender says, "We don't serve noble gases in here."
Argon doesn't react.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave.
Higgs Boson says, "But you can't have mass without me ".
nikto
(3,284 posts)At least, that's the way it comes out for me.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)You're part of the precipitate.