Sunday, February 23, 2014

Diatomic Permutations












CO, CN-, O2, C22-, NO, and N2

Two are deadly, one gives life, one explodes, one erects, and one doesn't do much at all.

11 comments:

chickelit said...

I left out nitrosonium, but that's an electronic permutation and not a nuclear one.

chickelit said...

Carbon monoxide was in the news again -- hence this blog post.

Michael Haz said...

Chemistry. Stuff white people do.

What, too soon?

chickelit said...

The word alchemy -- hence chemistry -- is straight out of Africa. Khemia meant "land of black earth" which was code for Egypt. Then, like rock and roll, the British white guys et al. got hold of it and made it real science.

Michael Haz said...

Two are deadly, one gives life, one explodes, one erects, one doesn't do much at all.

This sounds like the pitch for a new sitcom.

chickelit said...

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Lem the artificially intelligent said...

comment deleted by blog administrator for lack of levity

We are looking for words to ban... but first, we have to give them a chance.

KCFleming said...

NO may also be implicated in chronic fatigue syndrome.

Elevated levels in the frontal cortex are found in CFS, but the cause is unclear.

chickelit said...

NO may also be implicated in chronic fatigue syndrome.

Is that a sort of intellectual ED?

KCFleming said...

Oddly enough, it may be.

Chip Ahoy said...

I wrote this card a-a-a-ages ago. 2010



The picture is a chunk of crocodile skin ew, but it is, and it means the sound "kem"

Maybe "kim"
Maybe "kehm"
Maybe "kəm"

Then a redundant "m"
A whole owl just to be redundant. The "m" is already there from "kem"
and then breadloaf "t"

A type of Egyptian wheat is named kemet. LIke calling American wheat America. You say kemut, they say kemet nobody knows for certain the vowels and they do not hold steady through time across places, and that caused a precocious boy of 11 or 12 to remark of the bulk bins, "The wheat in this bin is Egyptian" and Mum to go, "If you say so."