Heh. Could be 'cause I'm married to one; when I read him out loud your comment, he instantly recalled what cyclohexane looks like. Or it could be that all my life I've collected nerds. I'm a nerd magnet.
The general public is gonna be a lot more familiar with benzene, though - for values of familiar meaning at least they've heard it exists.
Don't mind me. I am soooo far behind on everything.
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Date: 2008-10-27 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-27 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-27 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-27 09:43 pm (UTC)Could be 'cause I'm married to one; when I read him out loud your comment, he instantly recalled what cyclohexane looks like.
Or it could be that all my life I've collected nerds. I'm a nerd magnet.
The general public is gonna be a lot more familiar with benzene, though - for values of familiar meaning at least they've heard it exists.
Don't mind me. I am soooo far behind on everything.
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Date: 2008-10-28 07:52 am (UTC)Who lived on distilled kerosene
But she started absorbin'
A new hydrocarbon
And since then, has never benzene.