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Chemical party

MAKE has a new chemistry book, I'm trying to convince the team we should have a chemical party sorta like this one Marie Curie's "Chemicals having a party" - Sexy carbons, bored noble gases, explosive reactions... what do you think?

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Posted by: Rob on June 3, 2008 at 10:39 AM

mcGruber

chemistry reminds me of McGuyver, but those SNL McGruber skits crack me up.

Rob

Posted by: on June 3, 2008 at 10:52 AM

OMG, I would so buy that book, please make the party book.

Posted by: Patti Schiendelman on June 3, 2008 at 11:36 AM

Oh, I want to be neon!

Posted by: Robert Bruce Thompson on June 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM

Since Dale gets carbon...

I'll take fluorine, which bonds with almost anything (including neon, Patti).

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