From the article: What Are Some Careers in Chemistry?
Is it possible to tell you are a chemist just from the way you look or the things you do? Maybe it's the safety goggles that you wear to cocktail parties or that subtle eau de organic lab odor that wafts in your wake. If you have a characteristic that identifies you as a chemist, share it! What Gives You Away?
you may be a chemist if...
- You may be a chemist if you get a step or two ahead of your teacher and set up a side experiment to aid in what he/she is teaching.
- —Guest Da
You may be a chemist if you...
- Mix your cocktails in molar quantities and are aware of the meniscus of each each ingredient and calculate the energy of activation as you pour the ingredients into the shaker
- —Guest Jimi
Boiling water
- You may be a chemist if you can't stand the expression "A watched pot never boils". It should be " A watched pot and an unwatched pot boil at EXACTLY the same rate.
- —Guest Mei
ACT
- The first time I took the ACT I got a 29 in science which surpased my expected 26 in Math
- —Guest Alvaro Rubio
You surely a chemist if....
- you keep a picture of Madam curie on your desk, and it turns you on... If you named your first born after one of the lanthanides, and then you felt compelled to have the whole set.... When you had unexpected sixteenth child you just had to name him Actinium, and now you're not sure how to stop. (of course this would tell that your wife is a chemist too for letting you do it) if you know that anal. chem. is not the title of a raunchy video. If you wonder what the lubricant in that condom is made from...
- —Guest Hosam ddeen
You may be....
- You may be a chemist if your kids are named, in order, for the inert gases, and you also know that they really aren't inert.
- —classof72
You may be....
- You may be a chemist if instead of spring water your kitchen has bottled DI.
- —classof72
Chemistry and nature
- If you are able to see all that nature has to offer and appreciate by trying to catalyse a better way of helping nature sustain its balance.
- —Dayveehd
I may be a chemist because:
- My favorite pinup poster is the periodic chart of the elements. I store my candy in an Erlenmeyer flask. I make my own litmus paper out of red cabbage and I make my own fertilizer and plant food enhancers from common chemicals and vitamins. I do magic using the old ancient alchemist type chemical reactions too. So, I guess, I may just be a chemist.
- —JoeC.Smith
You may be a chemist if...
- you don't believe all free radicals are Democrats. or... should be put in prison. or... are escapees from a high security prison.
- —Guest John Lennox
Unionized
- The way you pronounce "unionized" unionized or un-ionized.
- —Guest John Carter
James S.
- Isaac Asimov said you could always tell a chemist by their pronuciation of the word "unionized".
- —Guest James S
You may be a chemist if....
- You know more about chemistry than your teacher with a phD in Applied chemistry and are always correcting her during class.
- —Guest carbonic acid
Mix business-labor relations with ...
- how a solid dissolves in a solvent. I can be reading a news story about a labor group coming together and run across the word "unionized" and in my head it comes out as un-ionized. Asimov was right!
- —Guest Peter Millican
Pinup Pride
- You may be a chemist if you have a framed 3 foot by 2 foot periodic table in your room.
- —Guest Greg D.
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