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• Chemical: A substance that: 1) An organic chemist turns into a foul odo
  2) an analytical chemist turns into a procedure...
• Organic Chemistry: The practice of transmuting vile substances into publications.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Genetic Engineering: A recent attempt to formalize what engineers have been doing informally all along.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Grignard: A fictitious class of compounds often found on organic exams and never in real life.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• First Order Reaction: The reaction that occurs first, not always the one desired.
  For example, the formation of brown gunk in an organic prep....
• Inorganic Chemistry: That which is left over after the organic, analytical, and physical chemists get through picking over the periodic table.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Bunsen Burner: A device invented by Robert Bunsen (1811-1899) for brewing coffee in the laboratory
  hereby enabling the chemist to be poisoned without having to go all the way to the company cafeteria....
• Natural Product: A substance that earns organic chemists fame and glory when they manage to systhesize it with great difficulty, while Nature gets no credit for making it with great ease.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Scientific Method: The widely held philosophy that a theory can never be proved, only disproved, and that all attempts to explain anything are therefore futile.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...