The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for April 21, 2012

And is overused to this day.

I believe it was Ulm, not Munich….

For a minute there I thought it was Nobel!

Didn’t young Albert flunk out of school???

Young Albert was sure to keep class from being a Bohr.

Einstein always had a lot of chemistry.

Good thing Schrodinger’s cat wasn’t in the pot… or was he?

The acne-free Mr. Holmes? " No zit, Sherlock"

He bombed out.

I usually favor ‘nice play Shakespeare’, though more when I’m playing basketball or soccer.

Bahston?

he went out with a bang

Beginnings of the Manhattan Project

I’m glad you’re still around.

Einstiein meets Sherlock and Dick Tracy.

Albert Einstein had dyslexia. BUT: he was a whiz with math and numbers.

I remember you always pour the acid into the water (otherwise the acid will literally follow the water up into its container), and it has been 50 years since I had HS chem, but for what reason, other than asphyxiation, would you mix sulfuric and hydrochloric acids? That produces HCl gas, which is highly toxic, not something to be generated by HS students. A teacher actually asked the class to do that???

That was his Cup-o-Lunch too.

Baslim: Memories of my junior high days when we made our own fireworks. When I was in high school, someone (not I) did the ammonium triodide stunt, but in the chemistry lab.

It also does that if you “paint” it on the underside of a toilet seat……or so I’ve heard!

Chlorine gas is also toxic. It’s a chemical weapon from WWI. An advanced class, what could possibly go wrong? See your original post..You don’t need to expose the class (and, since these are gases, potentially the rest of the school) to toxic agents to teach any part of chemistry. There are safer alternatives. I try not to disparage, but your teacher is/was an idiot. M.S. Chem.

That should more accurately be Leo Szilard.