| ACETIC | A marine parasite | ACTIN | Former profession of famous 20th century U.S. president | ALKYNES | It takes these to make a world | AMPOULE | Sufficient | ANODE | A poem | ANION | Device for pressing clothes | ASYMMETRY | A graveyard | ATOM | A male cat | BARIUM | When inquiring how to dispose of toxic chemical wastes a junior chemist may be told this by an environmentally unfriendly supervisor |
BENIGN | One of the vitamins in the B group | CATALYST | A written record of a farmer's beef herd | CIS-MIGRATION | Movement of ones sibling to another country | CLOSE PACKING | A tourist will do this with the contents of a suitcase | COALESCENCE | Liquid produced by the liquification of solid fossil fuels | COPPER NITRATE | Rate of payment for police officers working evenings | COULOMB | A well air-conditioned dwelling | CROWN JOULES | Energy used by English royalty | CRYSTALLIZE | When a crystallographer tells a colleague he grew a crystal two feet long, you know he is telling these |
DECREASE | To iron crumpled clothes | DEGREES | To remove grease | DISPERSION FORCES | Police and military personnel who break up disorderly crowds |
DRYING AGENTS | Group of damp FBI men sitting by a heater | DYING | This occurs when large quantities of indigo are ingested | EDGE-SHARING | What depressed stockbrokers do from the top of tall buildings when stocks go down |
ELECTRON | Succinct campaign slogan used for President Reagan's election |
FACE-SHARING | Kissing | FERROUS WHEEL | A cyclic molecule composed of Fe2+ ions | FLUORESCENCE | The odor of dirty carpets | FORMATES | Members of a barbershop quartet | FREE ENERGY | Sunlight | FREEZE-DRYING | A process which usually occurs when one steps out of a bath on a cold morning |
FREEZING POINT DEPRESSION |
Anxiety experienced by people during harsh, northern winters |
FROTH FLOATATION | A foaming glass of beer | GRADUATED CYLINDERS |
Well educated lab glassware | HARD WATER | Hail stones | HERTZ | This happens when you bang your head against a wall with great frequency |
HEXYL | Where dissident Russian chemists were once forced to flee |
HISTONES | Sounds of displeasure | IODATE | Fruit of palm tree found on one of Jupiter's moons | IODINE-127 | If you borrow $127 from the Dean of your college, you may be required to give him or her a slip of paper with this on it. |
IRON | A metal which was discovered when someone smelt it | ISATIN | Exclamation by the Italian chemist who discovered tin | LACTOSE | Description of aquatic birds with webbed feet | LITHARGIC | Condition resulting from ingestion of lead oxide | LONDON FORCES | British police | LONE PAIR | A solitary piece of fruit | MAGNETIC MOMENTS | When boy meets girl; can be attractive or repulsive | NEON LASER | An expensive accident | NITROGEN FIXATION | Unnaturally excessive desire for inert gases | NOBLE GASES | What flatulent Dukes and Earls emit | NUCLEAR FISSION | Still a popular aquatic sport near Chernobyl | ONE OUNCE OF SILVER PEROXIDE |
Rate of payment by early settlers for a trapper's ox skins |
PHEROMONES | Low cries of pain uttered by sick, ancient Egyptian rulers |
PLATINUM BLUES | A feeling of despondency commonly experienced by platinum chemists |
POLARIZE | Frozen water in the Arctic | POLYCLINIC | A parrot hospital | POLYSATURATED | A very wet parrot | PORPHRYINS | Low-income neighbors | POTASH | Residue from a marijuana cigarette | QUARTZ | Where tennis is played | RADIOACTIVE DATING | Popular activity of young residents from the Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl areas |
REDOX | A sunburnt beast of burden | SCHIFF BASE | Moving one's business to another location | SILICONE | A dunce's hat | SIX MOLAR SOLUTION |
A solution containing half a dozen dissolved teeth | SOLAR COLLECTOR | A person basking in the sun (may produce a tangent) |
SOLUTE | A private will do this when a General passes by | SOLVATION | When sprinkled with holy water, a catholic chemist may achieve this |
SOLVENT | A window | SURFACE TENSION | Mental stress experienced by a champion surfer | TANNIN | Solar collectors spend many hours engaged in this activity |
THENYL | The longest river in Africa | THYMOL | A congenital growth on the upper part of the leg | TRANS-EFFECT | A phenomenon frequently encountered by chemistry students in lectures |
UREA | Sense organ adjacent to your eye | WAVE MECHANICS | The technique used by surfers to maintain balance | WOLFRAM | Hybrid species produced by crossing a wild dog with a sheep |
ZINC SPONGE | A washcloth used in kitchens |