As some of you know, I teach organic chemistry at Virginia Tech. My exams are known for their difficulty, which I tell them day one, and most of them also learn from talking to my former students. But I'm kind of like Bob Knight in a way, many of them come back and tell me they appriciate (in...
If you read the bottle, it says it comes in colors. It's going to vary batch to batch if they peppers they use are different colors/ripeness levels. Decent sauce though, used to love it when I was starting out, but now I taste more and more of the allspice and less of the peppers.
Hallelujah! Bad Taste, Feebles, and Dead Alive are Peter Jackson's three greatest films. My friend and I once debated whether those movies would be better or worse if he had the type of budget he had for TLotR series for his first three movies. The answer we came up with was "no way".
I...
HEY!!! I take umbrage to that insinuation, but not all chem majors are thieves :)
I wouldn't want to use any of my glassware from the lab for anything I would consume, regardless of how many times I washed/base bathed/cooked it and rinsed it. That's just plain stupid.
I would like to reflect on my 500th post.
Damn...lost the acceptance speach...
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SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!
*pounds podium, raises fist in triumph*
Hey, I'm useful...aren't I?
Wait...if I were useful, I'd have marketable job skills instead of being a degenerate gambler/graduate student/retired football coach.
Well, at least my dog likes me...and I like pie too! :lol:
95.5% is the most pure you can make ethanol by distillation. It forms an azeotrope with water at that point, which is why everclear is 95%.
At least your body can oxidize xylene and toluene to terephthalic acid and benzoic acid respectively. Benzene has no "handle" for your body to grab onto...