"Remember, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate!"
--Unknown
Chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal
impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames,
poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly
that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia."
-- Johann Joachim Becher, Physica subterranea (1667)
My name is Bond, Ionic Bond:
Taken, not shared!
--Caren Thomas
Chemistry is the bridge between the
perceived world of substances and the imagined world of atoms. --Peter Atkins
“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.”
