Calculators and Metal Extraction

Note: this is an ORIGINAL joke created by Jael and I.


Q: Why are 3 Casio calculators found at the bottom of a blast furnace in the process of iron extraction from haematite?




*suspense*




A: Calcium Oxide formed from the decomposition of Calcium Carbonate in the furnace reacts with the impurity, Silicon Dioxide in haematite.

CaO + SiO2 --> CaSiO3

And this forms Calcium Silicate.
Or rather, 3 Casio Calculators, if you examine the chemical formula of Calcium Silicate.

If you still don't get why there are 3 casio calculators, think of it in this way.

Let CaSiO be represented by the letter X.

So,
(CaSiO3) = (CaSiO)(3) = (X)(3) = 3X = X+X+X =Casio calculator+casio calculator+casio calculator=3 casio calculators



Wow that maths was worse than calculus.

Oh wait.

Is that you laughing at that joke? =O

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now, back to reality!
HAPPY LABOUR DAY IN ADVANCE!

I guess this year we'll really be going through labour on labour day.
(bad pun)
Think of all the piles of notes we'll be going through...
The amount of amaths we'll be doing...
Amaths...Geog...Bio...Physics...

Oh my Holey Partially Permeable Membrane!!!!!!!!!!
(i wonder if you noticed the second bad pun ^_^ HINT: read it out loud)



Ok. Let me spread some helpful golden words of advice.
We should all think POSITIVE.

There was this quote made by Helen Keller, an insipring author, who is blind.
She said: "Keep your face to the sunshine, and you'll never see the shadows."

I first heard of this when my MindChamps instructor, Kayne, wrote it on the board. I mulled over it for a minute when he was explaining the meaning of it to us.

Alas, my unhealthy obsession with science caused this to be blurted out from my buccal cavity. (mouth=buccal cavity,for all you non-biological-folks out there)

"Uh... Then if there's a solar eclipse, this quote is technically wrong, hor?"

Kayne: "....."

Class: *stares at science boffin*

Eh... all physics students out there... I am not exactly wrong, right??? At least technically.

Oohh ya I bought this Biore Pore Pack today. Tried one. And got amused. You won't believe how many clogged pores I have. I didn't believe my sebum glands either. Though I am still disgusted at how many of those 'things' are stuck onto the pore pack, I am absolutely amazed by it.

Looking at the amount of oil my nose produces per unit time, all that oil on the pore pack could have been used to fry an egg. I mean seriously!!!

In conclusion I think biore pore packs are good. Hehe. Happy with the results. =D

Have a great day!

Nerdiness

found these jokes on a hwa chong institution chemistry website.
Read on to find out how a chemistry nerd expresses his love.
(hello mrs chan)
enjoy!

What does one do with a dead body? Barium
They should have seen the doctor first, he'd Curium.
Perhaps with a housplant, a Germanium.
And if they stole it, the police would Cesium.
Locked up for life, in Irons.
They would go crazy in jail, a Silicon.
Maybe they're into plastic surgery.
What does the surgeon do for low cheeks, Lithium.
To large gashes? Sodium.


A Neutron walked into to a bar and said: "How much for a drink?"
And the bartender said: "No charge!"


Q: Why did the white bear dissolve in water?
A: It was polar


HAHAHA!!!

and this love poem is my absolute favourite.


I am attracted to you
Like an electron to a proton
Together we form an ionic bond
Though we are opposite charged ions
I am drawn towards you
Our love is unique as an orbital
For only two electrons can fill this space
As my love for you increases
My energy level rises
I am in this excited state
Increasing the tendency to form a chemical bond
I was an element
It took you to make me a compound substance
Falling in love with you is a chemical reaction
Which cause my love for you to grow
Ours is an exothermic love
Each for giving off love not just absorbing it
Sometimes you do something especially nice
Which speeds up the chemical process
Like a catalyst in my increasing love for you
I realise we have our inhibition periods
And sometimes I am selfish enough
To be an endothermic reaction
Only absorbing your love
The feeling I have for you is so intense
It cannot be measured in kilojoules
Often I have to make a qualitative elementary analysis
To understand and love you more
But I don't expect to know your empirical formula
You are too complex a person for that
When you are gone
I am a noble gas
An inert substance
When I am without you
The world seems still
And I am at equilibrium.


Cannot tahan! Maybe Hwa Chong boys are the best potential boyfriends ever. (I think.)