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PVnRT

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Tue Feb-03-04 02:46 PM
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Incredibly geeky chemistry cartoon

If anyone else gets this, I will be shocked.

The website where this is from: http://nearingzero.net/

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FredrickDouglass

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Tue Feb-03-04 02:53 PM
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1. Lured Far Away From Home, I Like It

And thx for the site link.

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Nlighten1

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Tue Feb-03-04 02:54 PM
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2. What element do you think that is?

Ununquadium?

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PVnRT

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:02 PM
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3. Probably more like Tin or Antimony

Edited on Tue Feb-03-04 03:03 PM by IAmJacksSmirkingReve

Ununquadium (which I think some people are calling Seaborgium, maybe that's a different one, I don't know) would actually be larger, as it has more electrons, and a p-shell further from the nucleus than the three shown.

ON EDIT: First-row transition metal, I just now caught that, which means Aluminum or Silicon.

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Kellanved

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:23 PM
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9. actually

Edited on Tue Feb-03-04 03:31 PM by Kellanved

Unless the language barrier is thicker than I think it is it has to be one of the following: Scandium, Titan, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper or Zinc ;-). Probably Vanadium.

Then again, a few years have passed since my last Chemical Science class.

Edit: JCCyC beat me by full 10 minutes.

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:04 PM
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4. Must be all

The heavy metal music they listened to.

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PVnRT

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:06 PM
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5. *rimshot*

Will you be here all week? Two or three drink minimum? :evilgrin:

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:11 PM
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6. I get it!

Edited on Tue Feb-03-04 03:12 PM by JCCyC

And the poor victim may be any of the following: Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, or Zinc.

My guess is Manganese. An element so unsure of itself, doesn't have the foggiest idea what his true valency is. On edit: Or maybe Vince = Vanadium.

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PVnRT

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:20 PM
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8. First-row transition metal

So it's aluminum or silicon.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:37 PM
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11. You're confusing "transition metal" with "semimetal"

http://www.webelements.com/

The red and green ones are the transition metals. They are called that because they have unfinished orbitals in layers other than the top one.

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TheMightyFavog

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:15 PM
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7. This is my fave!

Great rendering of a Fariey Swordfish, BTW.

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:41 PM
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12. Oooooooh

Bad very very bad.

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:33 PM
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10. I Get It!

Not that funny. Not all of us trained in chemistry are quite geeky enough to think it's funny. Even if we get it. Still not funny. Cartoonist should be beaten with a bismuth bar.
The Professor

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brainshrub

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:41 PM
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13. I didn't get it...

but for some reason I still thought it was funny.

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bicentennial_baby

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:43 PM
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14. Bwahahaha!

I'm not afraid to admit, I got it!

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TrogL

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Tue Feb-03-04 03:46 PM
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15. Any highschooler should get it

Especially if they've been watching the news.

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bmbmd

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Tue Feb-03-04 04:09 PM
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16. Was this drawn by famous Russian cartoonist

Heli Bebknof?

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Robb

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Tue Feb-03-04 04:17 PM
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17. In physics, the only material we were interested in

...was Inobtanium. Miracle metal with the hardness of titanium alloy (6Al/6V/2Sn) and the weight of styrofoam. ;)

It was also, I seem to recall, plentiful, inexpensive, and easy to machine.

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