You May Be a Chemist If (Chemist Characteristics) 1

Is it possible to tell you are a chemist just from the way you look or the things you do? Maybe it’s the safety goggles that you wear to cocktail parties or that subtle eau de organic lab odor that wafts in your wake. If you have a characteristic that identifies you as a chemist, share it!

You Might Be A Chemist

If you know all the elements on periodic table of elements by name, atomic weight, atomic number, and primary state.

— Aztec727

you may be a chemist if…

You may be a chemist if you get a step or two ahead of your teacher and set up a side experiment to aid in what he/she is teaching.

— Da

You may be a chemist if you…

Mix your cocktails in molar quantities and are aware of the meniscus of each each ingredient and calculate the energy of activation as you pour the ingredients into the shaker

— Jimi

Boiling water

You may be a chemist if you can’t stand the expression “A watched pot never boils”. It should be ” A watched pot and an unwatched pot boil at EXACTLY the same rate.

— Mei

ACT

The first time I took the ACT I got a 29 in science which surpassed my expected 26 in Math

— Alvaro Rubio

You are surely a chemist if….

you keep a picture of Madam curie on your desk, and it turns you on… If you named your first born after one of the lanthanides, and then you felt compelled to have the whole set…. When you had unexpected sixteenth child you just had to name him Actinium, and now you’re not sure how to stop. (of course this would tell that your wife is a chemist too for letting you do it) if you know that anal. chem. is not the title of a raunchy video. If you wonder what the lubricant in that condom is made from…

— Hosam ddeen

You may be…

You may be a chemist if your kids are named, in order, for the inert gases, and you also know that they really aren’t inert.

—classof72

You may be….

You may be a chemist if instead of spring water your kitchen has bottled DI.

—classof72

Chemistry and nature

If you are able to see all that nature has to offer and appreciate by trying to catalyse a better way of helping nature sustain its balance.

—Dayveehd

I may be a chemist because:

My favorite pinup poster is the periodic chart of the elements. I store my candy in an Erlenmeyer flask. I make my own litmus paper out of red cabbage and I make my own fertilizer and plant food enhancers from common chemicals and vitamins. I do magic using the old ancient alchemist type chemical reactions too. So, I guess, I may just be a chemist.

—JoeC.Smith

You may be a chemist if…

you don’t believe all free radicals are Democrats. or… should be put in prison. or… are escapees from a high security prison.

— John Lennox

Unionized

The way you pronounce “unionized” unionized or un-ionized.

— John Carter

James S.

Isaac Asimov said you could always tell a chemist by their pronunciation of the word “unionized”.

— James S

You may be a chemist if….

You know more about chemistry than your teacher with a phD in Applied chemistry and are always correcting her during class.

— carbonic acid

Mix business-labor relations with …

how a solid dissolves in a solvent. I can be reading a news story about a labor group coming together and run across the word “unionized” and in my head it comes out as un-ionized. Asimov was right!

— Peter Millican

Pinup Pride

You may be a chemist if you have a framed 3 foot by 2 foot periodic table in your room.

— Greg D.

Hand Washing

A chemist is someone who washes his or her hands BEFORE they go to the lavatory!

— John Sloman

know it all

If you cant help but pretend you know it all, but you really are just observing and waiting for reactions to take place.

— Dana Graham

future chemists

you may be a chemist…… when your students accuse you of balancing equations as a hobby.

— sierra

future chemist

I teach high school chemistry and use a lot of household chemicals for experiments. I always experiment at home first and my son LOVES it!

— sierra

THE PICTURE

CHEMISTRY is not just FAITH in any THEORY, but OBSERVATIONS from EXPERIMENTS and CONCLUSION From OBSERVATIONS… So, If you are always curious to know, reason and see in STAGES beyond the physical, YOU CAN BE A ~CHEMIST~.

— Odeyemi Isaiah

Scared of drinks…

You may be a chemist if you are scared of drinks…. you do not know if it is a toxic chemical or drinking water and if it is a juice or a poisonous chemical

— Lukman

You may always…

called the selfish people as group 18 ; called the active people as group 1 …

— Ms. Sodium Chloride

Chemistry of life

You’re a chemist if… You see life as stages of development, as it is in reaction mechanism: step by step process that takes place for reactants to form product. Life mechanism!

— Ezekielsolomon

Sterics

If you’ve ever referred to a fat person as sterically hindered…

— GNS

You May Be a Chemist

If a mole isn’t something on your face or in your yard

— phi

You may be a PhD Chemist if…

You are currently a highly qualified underpaid temp worker (aka postdoc) and are desperately looking for a job.

— GW

wonder in the simple things

even boiling water fascinates you. Is it boiling at exactly 100C or what affect are impurities or the air pressure having on the boiling point?

— Sharon

You may be a chemist if..

you think it’s better to see the conical flasks everyday rather than microscopes or gear and springs.

— ShikinKern

SSGT

If your recipe for chocolate chip cookies starts with, 1. 532.35 cm3 gluten 2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3 3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite 4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride 5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11 6. 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11

— BA Jones

you may be chemist if…

…you have small periodic table of elements in your wallet

— Ivona Croatia

you’re a chemist if..

if you know if reactions will take place or not..if you think of atoms as a crazzzzzzzzy thing bouncing around you..

— lee

If you are ready to dedicate your life

You may be a Genuine Chemist if you are ready to dedicate your time to Chemistry, willing to pay the price of making and breaking bonds.

— Opalade Adedamola Abraham

you may be a chemist if…

you always see things in the molecular level; answers the why it happened rather than the what happened..

— pi

You know you are..

A Forensic/Analytical Chemist, when you laugh at how they does Analysis in Lab when you’re watching CSI.

— Leon

You know you are..

A Organic Chemist if you count 1 to 10 by Methane,Ethane,Propane,Butane…Etc etc etc..

— Leon

chemique

if you read ‘unionized’ as ….. . . . . un-ion-nized instead of union-nized

— dadaluma

it’s fun

you always think about how something happen and how its start to happen

— sha

A Chemist !!

Everyone observes but a chemist will observe, experiment, analysis, after which he puts forth his findings. In summary a chemist finds out what others observe.

— Uhegwu Princewill

smelling stuff

Your are definitely a chemist if you wave your hand every time you want to smell something, instead of putting your nose right into it

— sara

Not a big drinker

You like the smell of ethanol, but you don’t like to drink a lot of alcohol

— mmm…ethanol

You may be a chemist if…

You aren’t a complete moron. Also, you wouldn’t be a chemist if you were overly bright, those positions are for physicists… considering the career field is more stable than chemistry fields.

—Guest lol

what gives me away is

when i make milk for my baby , the level of water in the bottle has to be exact (my eyes have to be level with the mark on the bottle) and the milk scoops have to be exactly filled and leveled .. any one else making milk has to do the exact steps or they will suffer 🙂

— mais

characteristic of a chemist

Always analytical even on simple things and not very quick to respond when ask the question, take a little time and think about it…

— precious

Atom Joke

Two atoms were walking down the road and one trips and falls. atom I, “Dude are you okay?” atom II, “No, I think I lost an electron?” atom I, “Are you sure?” atom II, “Yeah! I’m POSITIVE!”

— KB

you may be a chemist if…

You view volumes of liquids In milliliters instead of ounces.

— Lizzay

Tom Lehrer

You may be a chemist if you have memorized the lyrics to The Elements Song by Tom Lehrer, and bonus points if you can play using beakers, burners and various lab equipment. You may also be a chemist if the spelling of Bacon is Barium (Ba), Cobalt (Co), Nitrogen (N). You may also be a chemist if you know all 125 elements (yes, I said 125).

— Mr. Pirate

you could be a chemist if…

you could be a chemist if in 5th grade you memorize the first 40 periodic elements like me!

— k5masterpiece

You might be a chemist if..

You can look at another person, or yourself, and imagine them being composed of little C’s, H’s and O’s.

— Hunter

If you know everything

When you see yourself as workaholic and make new things happen often

— Matthew Ogunyinka

Chemist

You may be a Chemist if you are able to perform test on simple home materials to distinguish them, e.g to distinguish water and alcohol

— Opalade Adedamola Abraham

Maybe a chemist if..

You make your own shower cleaner. My children don’t even ask anymore what’s that stuff in the fridge or why do you have baggies hanging from the clothes line.

— Brenda

….a chemist at last…

I eat chemistry, drink chemistry, urinate chemistry, gas chemistry, excrete chemistry….somehow everything i do is chemistry cos they are MATTER! what about u?

— qidasnamkul

You are an inorganic chemist if…

you dismiss everything else as organic chemistry (like me)!

— Chemicalinterest

Chemist’s Son

Johnny was a chemist’s son A chemist’s son no more What he thought was H2O was H2SO4

— Mike Broderick

Always wash your hands

You may be a chemist if you wash your hands BEFORE you use the bathroom.

— Rich

Fresh Air

You might be a chemist if you think fresh air smells bad.

— MegaTJ

FullMetal

You might be a chemist if you watch the anime FullMetal Alchemist just for the references to actual alchemy.

— Kisanath

You may be a chemist if

You use a high concentration acetone (none of that watery department store nail polish solution crap) to remove fake nails rather than going to the saloon and paying for someone to rip them off.

— dm

more coffee chemistry

You might be a chemist if, when you are forced to make instant coffee, you enjoy immensely the sound of the density change as the instant coffee dissolves, and notice that the change is a bit different when you dissolve in the sugar.

—mamadutrois

practice well

u might be a chemist if u find urself talking about chemistry most of the time and u find urself practicalising things often with them

— shevvy

you may be a chemist

if you watch the show called Big Bang Theory. EVERY WEEK!!!!!!

— Paul

chemist in kitchen

cooking in asian countries is an art for all. when someone cook in kitchen he/she have to mix different kinds of meterials in such away that we can take it. for example; if u mix huge amount of salt in ur curry ucann’t take it. so i think cooking is a chemistry and u can be a chemist in kitchen.

— chinmay_cu@yahoo.co.in

Inborn chemist

You can be chemist if mixing heating and waiting 2 see its result is inborn in u. Even ur playthings may constitute some domestic litters and u may be testing in their reactions with others.

— Baishali

You cook well..

A chemist can be a good cook. He can mix the ingredients in the correct ratio, heat them properly for he knows the hottest part of the flame. You can find him rinsing the utensils and saving energy, using a pressure cooker properly etc.

— Rekha Sachdeva

water chemist

Analysis of fully drinking water treatment as example tds, ph, and so on.

— vedshree

Madam

You can tell if a TV addict is a chemist by the shows she watches….CSI Miami, New York Trilogy..its all about the laboratory and the intricate investigative work

— Husna

Are you an organic chemist?

You can be an organic chemist if you are able to identify unknown organic compound

— Idris Umar

Laundry is a Science

You may be a chemist if you can remove stains scientifically and not hope for “washday miracles.”

— Lily

You just want to recite them with ease

You may be a chemist if you often arrange popular names in your favourite sports to suit some orderly arrangement in chemistry like the Diatomic elements; the Halogens; Electrochemical series for metals=K(Kelvin) Na(Nolan) Ca(Can) Mg(Make) Al(All) Zn(Zidane) Fe(Fans) Si(Silent) P(Provided) H(He) Cu(Can) Hg(Hug) Ag(All) Au(African) Pt(Players).

— chiedozie

PT

You do it on the table periodically. (Because all chemists do it on the table, periodically!)

— Karen Razz

“I got to see that label”

If you are always prone to read the nutritional facts of snacks when you visit the grocery store.

— Oladele

must have that cup of joe

You may be a chemist if you break the carafe to the coffee maker and quickly create a filtration device (beaker, filter, and rubber band to hold filter paper) to get that warm brown liquid to start your day.

— chemengin

You might be a Chemist if….

You refuse to buy anything at the grocery that doesn’t have the chemicals used to make it listed on the label.

—BigMikeSr

Experiments in the garage

You combine ingredients in a recipe and think Stoichi. (Or just the fact that you took the time to respond) 🙂

— Glenni

You May Be A Chemist If…

You view the bathroom as my laboratory. You view kids or teens as specimens, experiments or lab rats.

— Liz

chemist in water chemistry

analysis of drinking water checking of residual chlorine, complete analysis of potable water as well as sewage analysis.

— naseem zaman

Ingredient labels

You may be a chemist if you read the labels on the food packages before you purchase them, understand what they mean, and often say “I wouldn’t feed that to a lab rat.”

— Ross

You May Be a Chemist If

You are having eyes like an eagle, Nose like a dog, Patience like a donkey,. and Brain like Emil Fischer, Woodward, ……

— D.K.SARKAR

it’s time to get things started…

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker were your favorite Muppet Show characters.

— Marsha

dissolve black pepper

You may be a chemist if it annoys when a chef on the cooking channel requires that you dissolve black pepper in a recipe.

— Rich

you may be a chemist

you may be chemist when you read ingredient on the soft drinks and other daily used products.

— nasreen

chemists what gives you away

you walk out of the room when a physicist walks in

— edwardo cordelliero

Spelling

You might be a chemist if you answer “Silver, Neon, Sulfur” to the question ‘How do you spell Agnes?’

— Jorge

Chemistry in the air

You probably are a chemist when you smell someone’s perfume and you think of aromatic molecules floating in the air….and maybe you can even see them!

— Joaquin

Salty in Kitchen

You may be a chemist if you can make a dish with right combination of ingredients and if you can add the correct ‘pinch’ of salt.

— Pradeep

cooked results

You are good in cooking up results !! Some chemists, bad chemists, habitually cook up analytical results to suit their research aims.

— veegee

Chemistry Mom

You may be a chemist if you sing the alkanes to the tune of Camptown Ladies to your kids instead of regular nursery rhymes (Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane, Do-Da, Do-Da..)!!! But hey, my son remembered it and won an award in chemistry, 1st year!

— Dr. Debbie

Flipping over Veggie Tales

You may be a chemist if, as your son is watching an episode of Veggietales, you stop and rewind about 15 times until you confirm that one of the split second screens shows Avogadro’s number! (check it out – it’s on the Silly Songs DVD)

—ascarp

You May Be A Chemist If…

You refer to the reasons for combining items in a recipe in terms of their chemical interactions – not only in the classroom, but at home as well.

—Sciencelicious

chemist

chemistry is my life my love i love it so i do my exp all time and i in my lab all time

— sawy

You may be a chemist if

When pouring from a ground glass stoppered bottle, you hold the stopper in your left fingers and do not put it down. You call mils, cm3. You can remember the first line of the transition elements. You know the three laws of thermodynamics.

— chartered

You may be a chemist if

Touch the tip of your spoon to the cup rim to remove liquid. You are a convergent thinker, who thinks to a conclusion

— chartered

No Spills

…you habitually wipe down all the surfaces in your kitchen to ensure there are no unidentified spilled fluids anywhere. …if anything not in its original container has a prominent and clear label on it.

— Annie

You may be a chemist if…

when cooking you set your liquid measuring cup on the counter and then get down on one knee to read the meniscus.

— herbalmomma

Just a science grunt

You can make the best natural soda pop in Erlenmeyer flasks in the lab for your visitors using dry ice!

— Patricia

chocolate

you see chocolate and think carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, cobalt (which is what draws us magnetically to the stuff), lanthanum, tellurium.

— kidstrek

you know chemistry principles by heart

It is not what appears outside that matters most; but what you know and how u can demonstrate such knowledge that count the most. Being a chemist is a wonderful experience as you can give simple explanations to what are happening around you since all things that surround you are chemically-interrelated. That’s make life on earth wonderful as we appreciate the amazing creative works of an awesome and living God!

—adrenalyn_high

Fireworks Geek

You may be a chemist if an especially nice firework elicits a response of “ooh, aah… strontium with nice titanium sparkles!”

— Todd

Coffee Chemistry

You may be a chemist if you measure double distilled deionized water for your coffee in milliliters, which you use because you like the flavor of the chemicals it leaches from the glass.

— Aza