chemistry

Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.

you're Shane, right?'He inched away from her and managed a quick nod as he twisted the rag he held in his fingers. 'Heidi sad you were willing to teach me how to ride.' Her expression shifted from entertained to confused, as if she was wondering why no one had mentioned he was a can or two shy of a six-pack. 'A horse,' he clarified, then wanted to kick himself. What else but a horse? Did he think she was here to learn to ride his mother's elephant? One corner of Annabelle's perfect, full mouth twitched. 'A horse would be good. You seem to have several.'He wanted to remind himself that he was usually fine around women. Smooth even. He was intelligent, funny and could, on occasion, be charming. Just not now, with his blood pumping and his brain doing nothing more than shouting "it's her, it's her" over and over again. Chemistry, he thought grimly. It could turn the smartest man into a drooling idiot. Here he was, proving the theory true.

Before you treat a man with a condition, know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient may not work for the next, because even medicine has its own conditions.

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.

The Kiss. It seemed like more than a kiss. It felt more like alchemy.

His attention felt more like an irrepressible gravitational pull than mere interest.

In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton ... the other that of James Prescott Joule. ... Thus the honour is done to Manchester's two greatest sons__o Dalton, the founder of modern Chemistry and of the atomic theory, and the laws of chemical-combining proportions; to Joule, the founder of modern physics and the discoverer of the Law of Conservation of Energy.One gave to the world the final proof ... that in every kind of chemical change no loss of matter occurs; the other proved that in all the varied modes of physical change, no loss of energy takes place.

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

You know, rust is just oxidation. The same chemical process as fire. Oxygen interacts with steel, electrons drift from one element to the other. So really, rust is a slow fire. Isn't that weird? Water causes something to burn.

I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consommé or the coffee, which, of course, is a simple matter of chemistry. The albumin contained in the eggshell has the property of collecting and binding the rubbish that floats in the dark liquid, which can then be removed and discarded in a single reeking clot: a perfect description of the writing process.

Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other in optical and other physical characters and so built up together as to give the body certain structural features. Chemical examination further teaches us that these kinds of material are composed of various chemical substances, a large number of which have this characteristic that they possess a considerable amount of potential energy capable of being set free, rendered actual, by oxidation or some other chemical change. Thus the body as a whole may, from a chemical point of view, be considered as a mass of various chemical substances, representing altogether a considerable capital of potential energy.

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

_мейк бе_едовал в _гл_ _ дв_м_ ме_аллами, недавно п_обив_ими__ из гл_бин _емли и не име__ими пон__и_ о _о_ма_ жизни на ее пове__но__и. Со в_ей вежливо____ п_инима__ей __о_он_ он занимал го__ей бе_едой, но ___дно б_ло _каза__, на_кол_ко __а бе_еда занимала его _амого. Соб__венно, _мейк _оби_ал__ _а__каза__ анекдо_, однако необ_одима_ дл_ понимани_ анекдо_а п_еамб_ла даже п_и лакони_но__и _мейка по__ебовала не мен__е мин___:_ __ди _о__о__ из _оединений _гле_ода и по__ебл___ ки_ло_од. Сме___ е___ п_ек_а_ение _ими_е_ки_ _еак_ий одного _ипа, _ _мейк поймал на _ебе взгл_д _видиона, ко_о_ого _вно заин_е_е_овал его __и_ел_, да__ий оп_еделение _ме__и, и _покойно закон_ил: _ и на_ало _ове__енно ин__ _ими_е_ки_ _еак_ий.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation

It was the first time! Just because there weren__ fireworks the first time doesn__ mean there will never be fireworks. We__e human; we__e adults; we teach each other; we communicate; fireworks don__ just go off, wham-bang; fireworks evolve!__westruck by the utter, asinine nonsense of this metaphor, everyone is still. Into the stillness, the ample woman drops the word __rong._ Then she says it again. __rong_I__ talking about science_Pheromones._ The woman turns to Cornelia. __he chemicals in his body call out. The chemicals in your body answer. It either happens or it doesn__.__n top of being dumb, Cornelia is dumbfounded.

It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always been bent on seeking each other's destruction by continual wars; and as force, when brought against us, can only be repelled by force; the chief support of war, must, after money, be now sought in chemistry.