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Chemistry April Fool's Jokes
What are some good chemistry April Fool's jokes? Obviously, making candy eggs out of lead acetate isn't funny... but aside from putting methylene blue
in the koolaide, I'm drawing a blank.
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Replace the sugar in the kitchen with ascorbic/citric acid. Whoever uses it next will have a pleasantly sour surprise. Or maybe sprinkle in a few mg
of denatonium benzoate if you really want to be mean.
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Make sugar glass and then do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_eHPd4i2oo 
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Citric acid might be hard to disguise as sugar, as it tends to clump up if not stored air-tight. Adding a little sucralose to the sugar might give a
nice surprise.
Maybe inject a whole orange with a few ml of a concentrated sucralose solution? That would be a shocker.
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Gallium teaspoon
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Quote: Originally posted by ninhydric1  | | Replace the sugar in the kitchen with ascorbic/citric acid. Whoever uses it next will have a pleasantly sour surprise. Or maybe sprinkle in a few mg
of denatonium benzoate if you really want to be mean. |
Anyone up for some lumpy coffee/tea?
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I had a 12L flask setup for vacuum distillation and I charged 6L of Coca-Cola to the flask. Connected it to my vacuum pump and put a full nitrogen
bleed on the pump and started stirring. I went over to one of the chemists I worked with and told him I was going to lunch and asked if he could pull
my flask down under vacuum while I was gone but to be careful to not get a drop in my receiver from bumping. Came back to him pouring the receiver
back into the flask and complaining about it bumping and off-gassing like crazy. It wasn't even April fools day 
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| Quote: Originally posted by ninhydric1 | | Replace the sugar in the kitchen with ascorbic/citric acid. Whoever uses it next will have a pleasantly sour surprise. ... |
I suggest replacing it with salt (NaCl). My 5 year old son would take a teaspoon of sugar and eat it "as is." One day he got the salt container. I
think he vomited up the salt.
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I gather one of my fellow students had the "fun" of starting April by cleaning raspberry jelly out of his lab vacuum line (He worked on air sensitive
organometallics). A hot air gun, water and patience did the job eventually.
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Replace the table salt with Sodium Fluoroacetate - tastes pretty much the same, and it will probably kill th- oh, wait...
[Edited on 4-2-2018 by Rhodanide]
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Ah, haha, yes, murder is fun isn't it
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Murder is unacceptable. Cracking skulls is worst we can go so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLNuhjwvYY
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Murder? Kids these days... when I was a youngster, we usually stopped short of spraying LSD on the salad bar, but yesterday was April Fool's, after
all...
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I wasn't even trying for an April fool's prank, but last night I inadvertently made my girlfriend cry with a nitrogen triiodide demo. I had talked to
her about it many times, and even shown her a video once, so she had some idea... I even told her that it would be louder than she expected.
Just a small spatula on a filter paper, left to dry for a couple hours... Touched it with a splint and she burst into tears.
Anyways, made me think, there are a million pranks you could do with NI3, creativity is the limit.
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Some Jokes:
A chemist and a physicist walk into a bar so what are their names?
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Clem and Atom, or is that Adam.
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What does an atmospheric scientist look like?
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Can't tell he's always in a fog!
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How does a chemist count to ten?
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One atom, Two atoms,...
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Do chemists get married?
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No, they just form bonds.
[Edited on 3-4-2018 by AJKOER]
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I have taken 2 or 3 flasks in the past and coloured the water in them with different colours... I then popped in a couple of pellets of dry ice and
left them by the sink and went out. People were wondering what the heck was bubbling away and smoking in the flasks.
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Another good one that I did a few years back was setting out a few drops of crude Phenyl Isocyanide on a watchglass in a random cupboard in my
apartment and let my brother try to find it before he lost his mind over the scent.
PhNC is perfect, because its odor is legendarily bad while not being toxic.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Rhodanide | Replace the table salt with Sodium Fluoroacetate - tastes pretty much the same, and it will probably kill th- oh, wait...
[Edited on 4-2-2018 by Rhodanide] |
http://offbeatoregon.com/1211c-asylum-kitchen-mixup-killed-h...
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