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First Order Reaction: The Reaction That Occurs First, Not Always The One Desired.
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First Order Reaction: The reaction that occurs first, not always the one
desired. For example, the formation of brown gunk in
an organic prep.
-- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary
Related:
Organic Chemistry: The practice of transmuting vile substances into publications.
-- 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...
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...
Monomer: One mer. (Compare POLYMER). -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary
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...
Censorship: The reaction of the ignorant to freedom.
The first example of superior principle is always inferior to the developed example of inferior principle.
Biological Science: A contradiction in terms. -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary