Wednesday, March 08, 2006

March of the Penguinones

Yes, even chemists have a sense of humor. There's an entire website devoted to silly chemicals--

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm


One example:

Penguinone (3,4,4,5-tetramethylcyclohexa-2,5-dienone)
This gets its name from the similarity of its chemical structure to a penguin.



6 comments:

not_over_it said...

Nomenclature be damned! I like Penguinone!

eyedoc333 said...

That entire website cracks me up!

not_over_it said...

dickite and cummingtonite are good names.

Red Tory said...

Arsole! Crapinon!

Man, that is too funny. Who knew?

KEvron said...

man! do you wonks know how to par-tay!

KEvron

not_over_it said...

JD said...
Yikes! I just had an organic chemistry flashback!

Thu Mar 09, 06:42:48 PM EST

Was it good for you?