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Funny sig, and on similar lines, I've seen:

"Kelvin rules absolutely, 0K" (Only works if the zero looks like a zero and not an O)

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483471 QUOTE: In Post 483471, Memnoch said:
Funny sig, and on similar lines, I've seen:

"Kelvin rules absolutely, 0K" (Only works if the zero looks like a zero and not an O)


LOL :D

I actually 'get' that one!!!! :o :o

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483471 QUOTE: In Post 483471, Memnoch said:
Funny sig, and on similar lines, I've seen:

"Kelvin rules absolutely, 0K" (Only works if the zero looks like a zero and not an O)

There have been a few of them.

I use scientific jokes and cartoons with the kids as a memory aid. Works well!

Two sodium atoms walk into a bar. One says to the other
"Hang on, I think I've lost an electron"
"Are you sure"
"I'm positive!"

A neutron walks into a bar and orders a pint.
He asks how much it will be.
"For you? No charge!"

And a classic cartoon:

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/media/nearingzero/Li.gif

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483481 QUOTE: In Post 483481, Fork Me said:
Two sodium atoms walk into a bar. One says to the other
"Hang on, I think I've lost an electron"
"Are you sure"
"I'm positive!"
"Where did you last see it?"
"Think I might have dropped it while I was doing the ioning."

<insert groan smiley here>

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483485 QUOTE: In Post 483485, Memnoch said:
"Where did you last see it?"
"Think I might have dropped it while I was doing the ioning."

<insert groan smiley here>

Like it!

On a vaguely similar note, what does this mnemonic remind you of?

Have you heard about little Beryl's brightly coloured nightie or Fiona's neglige. Naughty Maggie allowing silly Peter's soft clutching arms. Kissing causes.........

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483574 QUOTE: In Post 483574, Fork Me said:
Like it!

On a vaguely similar note, what does this mnemonic remind you of?

Have you heard about little Beryl's brightly coloured nightie or Fiona's neglige. Naughty Maggie allowing silly Peter's soft clutching arms. Kissing causes.........

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The second and fourth words are superfluous, which threw me for a minute, but it's the periodic table. :)

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I completely none the wiser! I guess this is physics or chemistry and I dropped both of those at 14. I was supposed to be doing biology but got thrown out and banned from the lessons after 3 months. z:1

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483584 QUOTE: In Post 483584, Mark.B said:
I completely none the wiser! I guess this is physics or chemistry and I dropped both of those at 14. I was supposed to be doing biology but got thrown out and banned from the lessons after 3 months. z:1


:o :o :o So what subjects did you take??? :s8

[Scrotnig]

I didn't take any of the Science subjects. I did French, German, Maths, English Language, English Literature, and something that started out being called 'Computer Studies' and then changed its name about half a dozen times. I was supposed to take Biology but got thrown out. There may have been a couple more, but I can't remember.

I hated school and everything it stood for. I hated all bar about five of the teachers, and I hated the headmaster. And if I see any of my former fellow pupils bar about four, I shan't be responsible for my actions!

Needless to say I quit as soon as I was 16, returning only to take the few exams I felt there was any point in doing. I vowed never to return to an educational environment ever again, and, bar a stint at an evening class in college some years back, I have stuck to that vow and always will do.

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483584 QUOTE: In Post 483584, Mark.B said:
I completely none the wiser! I guess this is physics or chemistryYes, it's physics (chemistry being merely a minor branch thereof).

M

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483592 QUOTE: In Post 483592, Memnoch said:
Yes, it's physics (chemistry being merely a minor branch thereof).

M


Way beyond me then. My physics teacher was such a complete nobhead I can't remember any of it, which is why i dropped it at 14.

The *only* thing, lierally, I can remember from those lessons was how me and about 3 others used to shove rubber pipette ends onto those funnel shaped lab water taps, and turn the water on at a tiny trickle. They'd gradually get huge, like balloons, and then spectacularly burst later in the day, showering everyone with water.

*cough*

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483593 QUOTE: In Post 483593, Mark.B said:
Way beyond me then. My physics teacher was such a complete nobhead I can't remember any of it, which is why i dropped it at 14.

The *only* thing, lierally, I can remember from those lessons was how me and about 3 others used to shove rubber pipette ends onto those funnel shaped lab water taps, and turn the water on at a tiny trickle. They'd gradually get huge, like balloons, and then spectacularly burst later in the day, showering everyone with water.

*cough*
How very uncreative of you not to have realised that such an experiment could have been used as an analogy for yet another version of BBT, the "Bowland Inflationary Model". Think of the book sales, the kudos, the girls! Boy, did you ever miss out! :rofl3:

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483583 QUOTE: In Post 483583, Memnoch said:
The second and fourth words are superfluous, which threw me for a minute, but it's the periodic table. :)

Yup, first 20 elements in order. I still remember them using that to this day, my A level chemistry teacher taught it to us. I use it with GCSE students.

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483593 QUOTE: In Post 483593, Mark.B said:
Way beyond me then. My physics teacher was such a complete nobhead I can't remember any of it, which is why i dropped it at 14.

The *only* thing, lierally, I can remember from those lessons was how me and about 3 others used to shove rubber pipette ends onto those funnel shaped lab water taps, and turn the water on at a tiny trickle. They'd gradually get huge, like balloons, and then spectacularly burst later in the day, showering everyone with water.

*cough*

I take it your current figure is modelled on how they looked just before the burst.

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483602 QUOTE: In Post 483602, Fork Me said:
I take it your current figure is modelled on how they looked just before the burst.

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/me sniggers