Trainor the Druggist

Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist,
What will result from compounding
Fluids or solids.
And who can tell
How men and women will interact
On each other, or what children will result?
There were Benjamin Pantier and his wife,
Good in themselves, but evil toward each other:
He oxygen, she hydrogen,
Their son, a devastating fire.
I Trainor, the druggist, a mixer of chemicals,
Killed while making an experiment,
Lived unwedded.

poem by Edgar Lee Masters
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Syrian Dictator Shadows Noose

beware a Syrian Dictator who cornered warns
threatens to use mass chemical weapons
not on his own citizens but foreign invaders

chemical weapons is a card previously badly used
chemical Ali father dictator Saddam this card abused
slaughter own citizens is post war crimes reviewed

hangman's noose is time tried tradition for crimes
humanity inflicts on loser nation toppled leaders
super power immunity veto not among loser options

poem by Terence George Craddock
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But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

quote by Kenichi Fukui
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And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

quote by Michael Polanyi
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I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

quote by Sydney Brenner
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Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

quote by Angela Merkel
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The Lost Drink

I had spent the night in the watch-house --
My head was the size of three --
So I went and asked the chemist
To fix up a drink for me;
And he brewed it from various bottles
With soda and plenty of ice,
With something that smelt like lemon,
And something that seemed like spice.
It fell on my parching palate
Like the dew on a sunbaked plain,
And my system began to flourish
Like the grass in the soft spring rain;
It wandered throughout my being,
Suffusing my soul with rest,
And I felt as I "scoffed" that liquid
That life had a new-found zest.

I have been on the razzle-dazzle
Full many a time since then
But I never could get the chemist

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poem by Andrew Barton Paterson
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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

quote by Francis Crick
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During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

quote by George Andrew Olah
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

quote by Mason Cooley
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women in kitchen
a creative chemistry
in all her cooking

senryu by Samanyan Lakshminarayanan
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Chemistry practicals
lead nitrate gave me
only sour taste

haiku by Putholi Arumugham
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In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

quote by Leo Baekeland
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It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.

quote by Derek Harold Richard Barton
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I can't abear

I can't abear a butcher,
I can't abide his meat,
The ugliest shop of all is his,
The ugliest in the street;
Bakers' are warm, cobblers' dark
Chemists' burn watery lights;
But oh, the sawdust butchers shop
That ugliest of sights.

poem by Walter de la Mare
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

quote by Michael Parkinson
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Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.

quote by Henry Albert Ben
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Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

quote by Kenichi Fukui
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