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[Billy's Little Trip]

12 favorite molecules:

1) H2O
2) NaCl
3) C8H10N4O2
4) C6H12O6
5) C40
6) O2
7) C2H5OH
NaOH
9) C5H5NO2
10) SiO2
11) NaHCO3
12) cupcakes

Mmmm, molecules nom nom.

edit: Ha, look what quoting you did to your 8.

[Lord of Oats]

My chem teacher in high school insisted that water should be written HOH instead of H2O, because of "the way it reacts," or something to that effect. I assume that means it's more likely to form hydroxides than oxides. And I never really looked into it. I guess the guy couldn't have been that crazy, because I did get a 4 on AP Chem.

Alright, Mr. Reist. I'm not worried about the munchies. I only keep healthy food in the house. And it's not that weed makes you crave food, so much as it makes the experience of eating, as it does any other experience, even more enjoyable than usual. I can't wait to try doing a girl who likes to toke...right after we toke, specifically. But anyway. I think if I want to enjoy my diet, that could be the way to do it. But how would it save me money? I could probably get drunk for under $5. In fact, I've even got enough alcohol in the apartment right now to get smashed to oblivion. I don't know how much weed costs, exactly, as I've never bought it...but I know it costs more than that. So...what? The biggest reason for not doing it is definitely money, but the illegal part is also not helping...especially since that drives up the price.

Okay and...I would never get full on the beer and salad diet. Nor would I much enjoy the cuisine...especially in the winter. I'm more on the...whole food diet...meat, dairy, vegetables, fruits, nuts...and i should eat pulses, but they're inconvenient, full of antinutrional factors, and don't even taste that good, or taste like anything at all. Protein and fiber blah blah...no, really, I should. But I don't have time to cook as it is. I work too much. Yet I still don't have enough money. FML.

[fluffy]

My chem teacher in high school insisted that water should be written HOH instead of H2O, because of "the way it reacts," or something to that effect. I assume that means it's more likely to form hydroxides than oxides. And I never really looked into it. I guess the guy couldn't have been that crazy, because I did get a 4 on AP Chem.

It's more to do with the fact that the chemical structure is H-O-H. It's more likely to split into an H+ and an OH- ion when it reacts than it is for the two Hs to split off from the O (the H+ goes off to form an acid and the OH- goes off to form a base). So, for example, table salt dissolved in water is actually a mixture of water, lye (NaOH), and hydrochloric acid (HCl).

There are plenty of reactions which split the hydrogen and oxygen apart entirely; electrolysis, for example. I think it's reactions which involve dipole-dipole bonding which tend to cause that, but they also need more energy to be brought into the system for them to happen since the ground state energy of O2+2H2 is much higher than the ground state of 2H2O (as you can see by how violently exothermic O2+2H2=>2H2O is).

[Ross]

The H(OH) approach is also quite useful in balancing certain kinds of equations (especially acid-base neutralization equations) precisely because it models the disociation of water well, as fluffy stated above.

[RangerDenni]

My Favoritest Things in the Whole Wide Universe!!!
1. songfight
2. popcorn
3. pianoteq
4. very, very cold pineapple soda
5. cupcakes with peanutbutterryness
6. tacos
7. My official, top-secret list rotating-changing list of top 12 people that I am having a crush on at any given point in time (I'm totally not kidding!!!).. known as 'The Twelve'
8. vests
9. omg there's a list thread here i COMPLETELY cannot believe this.
10. blogging and overtweeting.
11. excessive listmaking
12. inappropriateness (excuse me).

YAY for this!
(i am always the last to know EVERYTHING when it has been here alwaysly all along for all the while I have been here)

[Lord of Oats]

12 best things about new york

12. it is not florida
11. holy crap the subway
10. the food is delicious
09. the food is so cheap
08. the same food costs twice as much in florida, and also sucks here
07. holy shit the tap water is delicious
06. all the stereotypes about it only actually apply to manhattan
05. small audio cables cost 87% less than they do here and are of higher quality and greater length
04. five counties in one city. what?!
03. there are actually interesting things happening
02. people are actually interested in some of the stuff that's happening
01. the audience voluntarily gives you money
00. cigarettes are really expensive
-01. you can't smoke in bars
-02. the intersection of myrtle and broadway has five 24-hour bodegas
-03. giant fucking grammatical errors on large, embarrassing signs
-04. the couple in the thrift store in bushwick that sells bootleg media behind a little counter at the front and has no qualms about making out while i try to leave with my ties
-05. great ties, for one dollar each
-06. everything is cheap, except for rent, and things that i don't like
-07. schools are really tall
-08. nearly all the bodegas take ebt, except in williamsburg
-09. all the metro cards on the ground with trivial sums of money on them
-10. you might get the chance to live with a crazy bitch of dubious european origin who is deliberately condescending and listens to radio static for hours. who perhaps also has a stable of terrible pets.
-11. manna, on lorimer and grand, 24/7, falafel and coffee and stuff with delicious reasonable prices and free internet yessss
-12. when you are stuck inside in bed-stuy during a hurricane, there's still a 24-hour bodega within sprinting distance

[the idiot king]

12 best things about going through a divorce:

12. i can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
11. reacquainting oneself with free time
10. no one to complain when the one tv show i watch is garbage. american horror story is good garbage.
9. the ability to say what's been on your mind
8. drinks with friends!
7. diminished self-loathing
6. re-relevance of depeche mode lyrics in your life
5. seeing adequate amounts of the family again
4. forced re-evaluation of life and mortality
3. walks to the pond through the woods to actually enjoy the silence
2. new girlfriend!
1. coming back to songfight, tail between legs again

[hillbilly]

1. updates to (jail,house,babes.com)
2. call from my dealer, wants to front till friday.
3. on wendesday, babe calls, wants to buy.
4. The local band (catfish) plays.
5. new strings
6. new loving
7. The Hun. org
8. Free Porn. net
9. free chicken wings
10. the babe comes back, wants to party again, she buys
11. a new dealer, what a deal
12. these azzholes on song fight?