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• Organic Chemistry: The practice of transmuting vile substances into publications.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Chemical: A substance that: 1) An organic chemist turns into a foul odo
  2) an analytical chemist turns into a procedure...
• Physical Chemistry: The pitiful attempt to apply y=mx+b to everything in the universe.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Ytterbium: A rare and inconsequential element, named after the village of Ytterby
  Sweden (not to be confused with Iturbi, the late pianist and film personality, who was actually Spanish, not Swedish)....
• Natural Product: A substance that earns organic chemists fame and glory when they manage to systhesize it with great difficulty, while Nature gets no credit for making it with great ease.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Chemical Engineering: The practice of doing for a profit what an organic chemist only does for fun.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Grignard: A fictitious class of compounds often found on organic exams and never in real life.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• First Order Reaction: The reaction that occurs first, not always the one desired.
  For example, the formation of brown gunk in an organic prep....
• Eigen Function: The use to which an eigen is put. -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary