It is easy really, scientists just make science look difficult to impress girls
All you really need is a white labcoat and a bunsen burner, and you're good to go.
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!,
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 8:34,
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I remember my chemistry teacher reducing it (ha!) down like that:
"If you take sodium, which is a substance so volatile it burns in water, and chlorine, which was the deadly, horrific gas used in the First World War, and combine them ... you get what you put on your chips."
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 8:53,
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The only science I ever enjoyed was with Fucking Shitty Magnets...
* Oh and human biology behind the bike shed...
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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on,
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 9:09,
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There's a great chemical reaction known as the 'housewife's surprise'
You put about a centimetre of sugar at the bottom of a beaker and pour on hydrochloric acid. A large, solid, phallus-like column rises out of the beaker until it's about ten inches long.
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riverghost servicing your mum since,
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 9:26,
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And....
how rigid is this column..?
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Kitty Fantastico "Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ",
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 9:28,
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And...
how much does it burn..?
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Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 10:33,
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*waits for certificate*
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Monsieur Monster I heard Seriously talk the first time. in here.,
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 11:19,
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a great improvement on the standard retort
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RedHouse over yonder,
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 11:47,
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