Curious Chemists Pillows

'Just for kicks, let's come up with something that has a good side effect.'

Interdisciplinary studies.

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

'What's the big deal about acid rain? Can't we just make alkaline rain to counteract it?'

Sexual chemistry set

Free Radicals.

Before they settled on water, shower pioneers experimented with a number of alternatives, including spaghetti,

"But but ... if we remove all the additives there'll be nothing left!"

The Brief collaboration Alfred Nobel And Thomas Edison

'What'll I do with the nuclear wastes?'

"Essentially Wilkins proves things and Brenner disproves them."

'Well, we turned water into wine. Anyone remember how?'

'I'm inventing an acid that eats through anything.'

"Well, we got the grant."

'Quickly boy, tell me which test tube you drank from?!'

Molecules You Ought to be Aware Of.

"Some genetic engineers we turned out to be!"

'It's amazing what they can do with amino acids these days.'

"For the hundredth time—I have no idea how to make crystal meth."

'This is the one - we want you to pray for this one.'

"Maybe we should have tried it on the rats first."

Chemical term for an unpleasant family of maladjusted alkanes.

"But you both can't be the 'father' of Ammonium Pentoxide Phosphate."

'Periodic table and avoirdupois weight of the Mendeleev family'

Make your own bottled water.

Confusion in A Jar.

'...then add some of the yellow powder to those blue crystals, heat it for a while, and see how you like it.'

A man and a woman click together.

Laboratory- risk assessor

Pasteur and those who came before him and failed.

'Money doesn't have wings, feet or wings. My dad says that nevertheless, it disappears with the speed of light.'

Great events in Chemistry...

"But why would these kids go uphill for water? A hill is an anticline, and water typically seeks the impervious layers of a syncline."

'Hon, did you see that ultra-adhesive compound I brought home from the lab?'