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• Inorganic Chemistry: That which is left over after the organic, analytical, and physical chemists get through picking over the periodic table.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• 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...
• 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....
• Publish or Perish: The imposed, involuntary choice between fame and oblivion, neither of which is handled gracefully by most faculty members.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Research: (Irregular noun) That which I do for the benefit of humanity, you do for the money, he does to hog all the glory.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• En: The universal bidentate ligand used by coordination chemists.
  For years, efforts were made to use ethylene- diamine for this purpose, but chemists were unable to squeeze all the letters between the corners of the octahedron diagram....