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• Chemical Engineering: The practice of doing for a profit what an organic chemist only does for fun.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• 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...
• Grignard: A fictitious class of compounds often found on organic exams and never in real life.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Physical Chemistry: The pitiful attempt to apply y=mx+b to everything in the universe.
  -- 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....
• 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...
• Biological Science: A contradiction in terms. -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary
• Flame Test: Trial by fire. -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary
• Sagan: The international unit of humility. -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary