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[Bealman]

Thanks Brooksy... I spent my working life teaching science, but physics was my field.

Is acetone a ketone? I have always thought they were supposedly nasty, evil carbon compounds. Or is that the benzene family?

[Caz]

... different smells too. Don't know how Mrs B puts up with it....

I love the smell as it usually means I'm dolling myself up to be taken out somewhere.   

[Bealman]

 

Like it. 

[Sprintex]

That smell in our house usually means there's a new My Little Pony arrived from Ebay that needs some pen marks removing


Paul

[Bealman]

Even more and bigger 

[Brooksy]

Is acetone a ketone? I have always thought they were supposedly nasty, evil carbon compounds. Or is that the benzene family?

It is a ketone but not toxic - hence why it is sometimes used in nail varnish remover. It is benzene that is particularly nasty. Funny you say 'evil carbon compounds' as pretty much every compound contains a few carbon atoms including alcohol  and I wouldn't call that evil - well maybe after a few too many   

[Bealman]

Thanks! Had a feeling I was mixing up my carbon compounds.

But I do hope that carbon is not present in too many ionic compounds, eg CuSO4, otherwise we may have to rewrite a few Chem books! 

[Agrippa]

Disappointed on reading this thread , thought it was about beer. :'(

[Bealman]

 

IPA.... not ethyl alcohol.... funny when, you think about it, the stuff they put into cheap petrol is the same stuff that's in beer and wine!

Car goes alright with the stuff, though - more than I can say about meself!! 

[Sprintex]

Top Fuel dragsters run on a Nitromethane/Methanol mix so it ain't that different


Paul

[Bealman]

Eeek. The difference the odd carbon atom makes, eh. 

[Agrippa]

Yeah, chemistry is strange , h2o , drink 4 liters a day for health, h2o2 blow your head off !

[Bealman]

In my younger days, I remember some bright spark saying that if you drink a heap of water when you get home after a big night out on the pop, you wouldn't get a hangover the next day.

My answer to that was, that if you can remember to drink heaps of water when you get home, you don't need to. 

[Newportnobby]

Would love to see a pic of your 'heap of water'

[daveg]

Would love to see a pic of your 'heap of water'

Er, this sort of thing, Mick?

http://crimematters.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/iceberg-tip.jpg?w=300&h=225

OK, I'll get back to the packing 

Dave G