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# Sorry not a chemist
it's described as Tetraamminediaquacopper, whatever that is, found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:06, archived)
# Well, normally for a first offence, I would let you off with a caution
but given the seriousness of the circumstances, I fear a custodial sentence is inevitable

/chemistry judiciary
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:08, archived)
# well, you're just a periodic table of justice, aren't you
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:19, archived)
# 'Angings too good for em, at least take away her house!
/knee-jerk overreaction blog
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:20, archived)
# Damn the injustice for not knowing my periodic table - Usually just get some tampax when the time comes
but now I'm enraged to riot against our mysterious elemental oppressors of which I know not of their model form!
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:26, archived)
# Mind telling me where the Jahn-Teller axis is in that coordination sphere?
*wins appeal*
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:03, archived)
# I'm reading that line in my Inorganic prof's Kiwi accent
Win!
I remember him lecturing on symmetry of tridentate ligands in octahedral complexes. "There are two possible symmetries, mer and fac, but you have to watch how you say that!"
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:06, archived)
# We had an old chap for organometallic chemistry
who would present all sorts of compounds with little snippets like "this compound smells of freshly-cut grass, which is usually the last thing anyone who smells it comments upon."
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:20, archived)
# That's usually commented about cyanide
which smells of bitter almonds, but most people can't smell it until it is at a dangerously high level.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:55, archived)
# I can't smell it.
I work with the stuff a fair bit as well. H2S is a dodgy one - when you can't smell it any more it's either a) dispersed and you're safe or b) at a concentration that means you're already going to die.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:58, archived)
# The smelliest lab at my university was the one working on novel bonding of pnictogens
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 16:08, archived)
# It is at least appropriately coloured
A lovely deep blue, like the uniforms of our esteemed constabulary.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 21:20, archived)