Tuesday, August 29, 2006

"Oxygen is a loving atom compared to hydrogen"

--from a student paper.

(I presume it is a mnemonic device she's using to remember that water is polar because the electrons get pulled towards the oxygen).

1 comment:

TChem said...

Oh, when my internal editor is away I say things like that all the time. Atoms and molecules have personalities, because if they didn't they'd just be little letters and numbers.

Oxygen *is* loving. Not like that greedy b*stard fluorine.