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#1 the_undertaker_rip1994

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 02:15 PM

IN THIS TOPIC YOU CAN WRITE ANTYTHING U KNOW ABOUT CHEMISTRY!

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#2 salamangkero

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 04:34 PM

View Postthe_undertaker_rip1994, on Jan 10 2007, 10:15 PM, said:

IN THIS TOPIC YOU CAN WRITE ANYTHING U KNOW ABOUT CHEMISTRY!

Aren't you supposed to be the one to start writing about it? I mean, you're the thread starter and all. And please, writing in all caps is very rude. It is the textual equivalent of shouting at us.

Okay, maybe I should start this one.

Chemistry is a branch of science dealing with the study of the composition of matter and the ways it reacts with other matter.

See, that wasn't so hard now, was it? :P

#3 Spyda

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 02:25 AM

I hate chemistry, when I took it i didnt learn anything and the teacher was asian(trying not ot offense ppl, but if this does sorry) he'd always say. Nacho+Nacho= Pacho . And i never new what it meant, then I looked in my book and it meant negative+negative=possitive. What does that have to do with chemistry I thought. And till this day I do not know what the ^E#*( thats MEANS. But I passed, didnt get an A but I passed and hope to never speak of this agaiN!

#4 sportytalk

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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:29 PM

I feel pretty much the same way about chemistry as the person who posted before me does. I hated chemistry as I found it was a rather complicated part of Science. However, there were still a couple of parts of the chemistry syllabus which I found interesting.

When I studied Chemistry at school, I can remember how we had to keep studying these elements of the periodic table, working out how many electrons each one has in their outer shell and then work out whether there was a negative or positive charge. We then had to work with ionic bonds, sharing electrons etc.

I live in England and I did the double Chemistry syllabus for GCSE, but I was pleased that I was able to give it up for A level. As I said above, th most of the course was complicated. My strongest section was working out the number of electrons quite easy. I feel I was only good at this topic as I was good at mathematics.

Chemistry wasn't my least favourite subject. History was a lot worse, due to being complicated and being boring.

Edited by sportytalk, 13 January 2007 - 08:30 PM.


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Posted 16 January 2007 - 05:41 PM

View Postbk2070, on Jan 11 2007, 10:25 AM, said:

I hate chemistry, when I took it i didnt learn anything and the teacher was asian(trying not ot offense ppl, but if this does sorry) he'd always say. Nacho+Nacho= Pacho . And i never new what it meant, then I looked in my book and it meant negative+negative=positive.

Wah doh yu mean yu donno wah nacho, nacho en pacho meens? I know yu are no intending to be but just becose we asian do not mean we donno how plain Engrish to speak, yah? And if yu ad too nachos end-to-end then yu get something pacho like, "I am not not Asian," and so yu have "I am Asian." Yes?

Just kidding :P

My chemistry days were kinda, well, boring. Our teacher made us memorize the entire periodic table of elements and, up 'til now, I still have no idea how I could have benefited from that. If anything, it's probably the sort of thing I'd say when a hot guy tells me, "I love nerds who know a lot of things," but, really, is there no other (pedestrian) use for that? I know the periodic table is not usually the stuff that crops up in perfectly normal and healthy conversations :P

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Posted 16 January 2007 - 10:41 PM

chemistry simply sucks ....nothing more to say :P....sorry for those that like chemistry and are good at it, but that is my very own opinion on chemistry, and I think nothing in the world could change it ^^

Edited by hts, 16 January 2007 - 10:42 PM.


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Posted 21 January 2007 - 10:59 AM

Chemistry is a good subject that everybody should learn. I'm not so good at it but i think i can make some explosion and avoid some dangerous ways in my life. Chemistry is a begining to research in Biology. So i must learn it.

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Posted 21 January 2007 - 12:11 PM

i hated chemistry when i took it i thought it was going to be easy but i was wrong the teacher expected us to know all the materials to make gold and other products after i took the class i learned nothing cause after he said we need to know the whole Periodic Table i just stop doing the work and i slept in that class.

Edited by street, 21 January 2007 - 12:13 PM.


#9 michaelper22

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Posted 21 January 2007 - 06:34 PM

I'll leave this subject with two points: 1. My chem teacher doesn't teach ("Read the book" is his favorite phrase) and 2. the New York State chemistry Regents exam is probably the hardest.

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 05:11 PM

Chemistry isn't that bad, and as a result I'll prove it: these are the names of chemicals which are accepted as their proper names, including:

Arsole (no I'm not swearing) : Arsenic on a 5-membered carbon ring
Megaphone
Cummingtonite : so called because it was found in Cummington, Massachusetts (My favourite)
Moronic Acid
Arabitol (as opposed to a burrow I suppose)
Windowpane (desribing the shape)
Uranate : Uranium Oxide's
Fucol: a sugar...actually
Penguinone and Dogcollarane (again shape)


and there are many more!

Edited by dastrophy, 22 June 2007 - 05:12 PM.





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