Thursday, February 25, 2021

Try these

How's your chemistry?  Common names for these please:

  1. H2SO4
  2. HCN
  3. C12H22O11
  4. NaCl
  5. C6H12O6
  6. 03
  7. NaClO

Remember - common names, not proper names of substances.

11 comments:

  1. Sulphuric acid #1
    Hydrogen Cyanide #2

    Sodium Chloride #4

    So says DR.

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    1. We need he common name, DR. We don’t pass the sodium chloride. N2 is good but how about Pr A.

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  2. Going back many moons to my days at university chem classes we have:
    1) Sulphuric acid
    2) Hydrogen cyanide
    3) Sucrose
    4) Sodium chloride (salt)
    5) Glucose ??
    6) Ozone (something the greens get in a lather about)
    7) Sodium hypochlorite

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    1. 1) Sulphuric acid
      2) Hydrogen cyanide [Prussic Acid]
      3) Sucrose
      4) Sodium chloride (salt)
      5) Glucose ?? [Fructose]
      6) Ozone (something the greens get in a lather about)
      7) Sodium hypochlorite [Bleach]

      Well done, both. Prize is an evening with the girl who drove off with the pump hose hanging out of her petrol opening.

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  3. Prize sounds like a euphemism. Ooh, err, mrs.
    But exactly what for by naive mind cannot fathom.

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  4. I'm trying to remember a rhyme that ended
    "Cos what she though was H2O was H2SO4

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  5. 2 chemists walk into a bar. One says I'll have a H2O, the other says I'll have a H2O too. He's dead.

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  6. JohnM

    The one I (think that I) can remember is....

    Thirsty Willie drank his fill

    But soon lay senseless on the floor

    For what he'd thought was H2O

    Was H2SO4.

    Anther from my youth of many, many moons ago is...

    Here lies the body of Emily Wright

    Who put out her left hand and turned to the right.

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  7. Alas Little Freddy is no more
    For what he thought was H2O, was H2SO4

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