Thursday, October 15

Chemistry Puns

Mr. Nguyen performed an experiment where an egg falls into a flask where the egg would not have fit originally. But if the flask is heated, the change of air pressure makes the volume of the air inside the flask expand, lowering the air pressure and thus the air pressure outside of the flask pushed the egg into the flask. The egg did not get sucked in.

Mr. Nguyen: "Chemistry never sucks."

Mr. Nguyen was demonstrating the popular can-crushing experiment where you heat the can and it will crush itself because the air pressure outside the can is greater than the inside. Except he didn't have any cans and so he used a plastic water bottle.

Mr Nguyen: "I can't get any cans."
Maggie: (unintentionally) "Yes, you can."
Tim: "This class is so punny."

It's the small things.