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Message 1452004 - Posted: 9 Dec 2013, 20:32:50 UTC

Well it's gone eight o'clock, and i'm still in the lab.
Since i have some time to kill waiting for various machines to finish their machinations, i've raided the transition metal complexes and made a Christmas tree for the undergrads:

Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.
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Message 1452005 - Posted: 9 Dec 2013, 20:37:04 UTC

And i wonder why i'm still single...
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Message 1452007 - Posted: 9 Dec 2013, 20:44:58 UTC
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♪ "O Chemis-Tree, O Chemis-Tree,
Your leaves are liquid, but not tea.
But if strong tea they were made from,
Then we would sing: O Tannin-baum." ♫

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Message 1452099 - Posted: 10 Dec 2013, 1:36:06 UTC

Very festive.
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Message 1452128 - Posted: 10 Dec 2013, 4:06:30 UTC

Now this...

This is something I can appreciate :D

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Message 1452178 - Posted: 10 Dec 2013, 6:17:21 UTC

Now there's a great seasonal test for them - to identify the compounds employed by visual, non-spectrographic methods...
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Message 1452180 - Posted: 10 Dec 2013, 6:19:15 UTC
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I like it. Hopefully the colored liquids are inert. One would hate to have the tree fall over and blow up the lab:)
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Message 1452243 - Posted: 10 Dec 2013, 10:26:42 UTC

Well they won't blow anything up, however three of them are quite poisonous and two are lethal.
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Message 1452539 - Posted: 11 Dec 2013, 1:34:36 UTC - in response to Message 1452005.  

And i wonder why i'm still single...

But none of us is wondering why it is that chemists (usually organic ones) die young!!! Do be careful, my friend.
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Message 1453517 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013, 11:36:38 UTC

Nice tree there Simonator, quite a creative mind you have:)
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Message 1455242 - Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 19:17:52 UTC

Heres the Big Glass Baubles and the Tree, in Covent Garden, London
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Message 1455301 - Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 21:07:55 UTC

My grandmother used to take me, when I was a wee lad (was I ever?), to the Museum of Science and Industry to see Christmas around the world. It used to make me wonder if all those countries actually did Christmas trees like we do, or if they even had Christmas.

I always wanted to see the train exhibits, electronic stuff, the coal mine a few times, the pendulum (which once was sitting on the floor with its cable coiled around it), pretty much anything interactive. And the Mobius strip.

Flappity floppity flip
The mouse on the Mobius strip
The strip revolved
The mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip - The Space Child's Mother Goose

The poem didn't amuse me, and the exhibit didn't mesmerize me, until Mobius strips were explained to me in a more conventional educational manner.
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Message 1455314 - Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 21:34:36 UTC

Quite interesting David:)
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Message 1455510 - Posted: 19 Dec 2013, 18:07:55 UTC

Our Christmas tree:) Yoko's peak is kaputt I'm afraid:(

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Message 1455607 - Posted: 19 Dec 2013, 22:02:57 UTC

Thanx Chris:)
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Message 1455638 - Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 0:02:27 UTC - in response to Message 1455590.  

Aw, that is pretty!!



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Message 1455651 - Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 1:07:27 UTC

My "little" tree:


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Message 1455678 - Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 6:28:35 UTC

My parents sent me a tree like that the first Christmas after I joined the Air Force.
It wasnt much, But I still remember it even after all the other trees Ive had.
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