Chemistry Professor: Now, class, here I have a beaker of H2SO4, and here I have a gold ring. Suppose I drop the ring into the sulphuric acid. Will the gold dissolve?
Student: No
Professor: Good. And will you please tell us why not?
Student: If it would dissolve, you wouldn’t put it in.
Student: No
Professor: Good. And will you please tell us why not?
Student: If it would dissolve, you wouldn’t put it in.
The 1930’s dictionary I lost in the hurricane Ivan flood was the Cambridge English dictionary. Inside the cover was a language tree showing how all modern languages derived from the original “Aryan.”
That really gave a boost to the Oxford version just a bit later.
That really gave a boost to the Oxford version just a bit later.
All the pages of the dictionary I bought online are blank.
I have no words to decribe how angry I am!
I have no words to decribe how angry I am!
Thanks for the language tree - it even features my home language (bottom right), despite what a famous actress said:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63642042
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Back to the spelling for a minute.
I was referring to the internationally accepted English spellings for entries on the periodic table only. All other facts and figures were immaterial in this case.
I was referring to the internationally accepted English spellings for entries on the periodic table only. All other facts and figures were immaterial in this case.
A genious idea is to combine chemical element symbols to make words...
I may think of MoRe examples after tonight's ScOTCH whisky!
I may think of MoRe examples after tonight's ScOTCH whisky!
🙂 on both counts
I wonder who might come up with the next one for us.
I hope I don't regret this.
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I wonder who might come up with the next one for us.
I hope I don't regret this.
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Why would anyone put their domestic life on the IoT so the NSA can spy on them?
Like Alexa... always my first questions: "Alexa, is Hillary in Jail?"... "Alexa, is HIllary dead?"... after that, my hosts tend to shut it down -while I'm in the premises- because they don't want the MiB to come blazing through the front door.
Before you open the glass door, the plates are clearly seen to be unbroken and not in a superposition of two states.
Boom Boom! 😀