Science Sunday

   Oh, we chemists are a droll bunch.

Marketing

    I'm a chemist by trade.  This is also why they don't let chemists do marketing.  I could tell you stories. 

Chemists and Romance Novels

   Well, of course.  The similes have to be scientifically valid.

The difference...

A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon showing the difference between physicists, chemists, and biologists.

Personally, I think the part about the Biologists is overrated.

A typical day at work

Really. This is how my day usually goes. The distillation apparatus gets sucked dry while I'm eating lunch and .... KABOOOMM!!

For chemists only...

For the record, his number is (6.02 x 10 to the 23rd). It's the number of atoms (or molecules) in a mole of anything. We chemists are geekily good at remembering this sort of stuff. We also celebrate something called "Mole Day" at exactly 6:02 PM (or AM, if you're a morning person) on October 23. We are just loads of fun.