[Magdalen] Chemical Party

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I have a thing where I use one name and mean another and leave folks
wondering. Fortunately I can have a long conversation with my spouse and
use a string of completely wrong words and she just rolls right along,
knowing what I actually mean. Sometimes, there's no apparent correlation at
all....

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net
> wrote:

> Ummm - "K" is Potassium, BTW. Howsomever, both sodium (Na) and potassium
> have the same reaction with water. Because they're in the same column of
> the Periodic Table!
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 12:35 AM
> To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Chemical Party
>
> One thing I noticed was that "Sodium" [K] and water [H2O] came together and
> immediately a huge tussle resulted. Knowing that Sodium just explodes when
> placed in water, I got a kick out of that.
>
> And then there's the whole carbon thing.  I about fell out of my chair,
> except I was in a recliner with big cushy arms, so ....
>
>
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
>  Wow, not knowing anything about chemistry or the periodic table, the
>> captions helped, and some of it I could figure out.  Pretty funny!
>> Probably funnier if I knew more....
>>
>> Ann
>>
>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>> Buffalo, NY
>> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 5:07 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This is not for everyone, and if you're wondering why all those people
>> have
>> > little signs with nonsense letters on them -- well ...
>> >
>> >
>>
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>