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Comment on The Dose Makes the Poison by Eli Rabett
https://geernst.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/the-dose-makes-the-poison/#comment-23
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:04:54 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=92#comment-23Don’t worry, if they are there you will hear them running through the ceiling joists.
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Comment on Hi, I’m your neighbor, and I’m a chemist. Sorry. by Chemystical
https://geernst.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/hi-im-your-neighbor-and-im-a-chemist-sorry/#comment-22
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:38:50 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-22I’ve been in love with chemistry for eight years and counting, and to helium-L-(2-subscript) with what anyone else thinks! I fell in love with dear old Chem the moment I first laid eyes on a periodic table. I once used chemistry at home to find out that a certain brand of slimming coffee contained… phenolphthalein, which is supposed to stay inside a chemistry lab only. (You need only chlorine bleach and rubbing alcohol to test it.)
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering rules! Without either, we wouldn’t have our prescription drugs, our plastics, our soaps and detergents, and practically every synthetic item on the planet! And we also gave the world the materials for making things go BOOM!
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Comment on Hi, I’m your neighbor, and I’m a chemist. Sorry. by Karna Holquist
https://geernst.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/hi-im-your-neighbor-and-im-a-chemist-sorry/#comment-20
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:38:13 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-20well, I’ve gotten one “useful” skill out of my chemistry degree-I can get rid of hard water deposits cleaning up your dishwasher. Otherwise, yeah, lot’s of the “I had a hard time with chemistry”
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Comment on Hi, I’m your neighbor, and I’m a chemist. Sorry. by jc
https://geernst.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/hi-im-your-neighbor-and-im-a-chemist-sorry/#comment-17
Wed, 11 May 2011 06:01:33 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-17In reply to Unstable Isotope.
would it make you feel better if i told you i loved chemistry (and biology) in high school, but i just wasn’t good with it…yep, i was a solid ‘D’! well in biology i was as and bs , it was the chemistry part i couldn’t get for some reason. my brain, at the time, didn’t care for memorizing things for any length of time!
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Comment on What Got Me Hooked on Organic Chemistry by Glen Ernst
https://geernst.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/what-got-me-hooked-on-organic-chemistry/#comment-15
Mon, 02 May 2011 23:32:36 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-15In reply to Diana.
Yeah, my high school was rare in offering organic chem. It was only a semester’s worth, but I loved it.
Thanks for the feedback — I definitely need to post more often!!
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Comment on What Got Me Hooked on Organic Chemistry by Diana
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Mon, 02 May 2011 05:41:32 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-14Dang – your high school had ochem? Even if it was simple ochem, that’s remarkable to me. I can relate to sniffing wonderful, newly synthesized esters for the first time in high school, though. Also, I like “swiss yield” – I’ll pass it on to my friends. 🙂
I’m glad I found your blog!
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Comment on Hi, I’m your neighbor, and I’m a chemist. Sorry. by Reliable Information is Written Respectfully | I Can Has Science?
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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:07:14 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-10[…] (Note that such publications may not be accessible to the public without paying a fee – you may have to use a computer at a university to gain free access. Alternatively, this is when it can actually come in handy to have a neighbor who’s a chemist.) […]
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Comment on Hi, I’m your neighbor, and I’m a chemist. Sorry. by Shak and Jill » Useful Neighbors are Good
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:48:39 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-9[…] Next Door, Glen Ernst tells his neighbors what he does but they don’t want to hear it. However, they can be very helpful to him, I’ve noticed that the neighbors I’ve had over the years seem to have had professions that were […]
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Comment on Hi, I’m your neighbor, and I’m a chemist. Sorry. by Glen Ernst
https://geernst.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/hi-im-your-neighbor-and-im-a-chemist-sorry/#comment-8
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:10:16 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-8In reply to Christine Herman.
Hey, thanks, Christine!
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Comment on Hi, I’m your neighbor, and I’m a chemist. Sorry. by Christine Herman
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Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:29:21 +0000https://geernst.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-7this was hilarious. especially the last paragraph.
@Unstable Isotope: I get that same response from people too
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