1. CHEMICAL PUNS: Never trust an atom, they make up everything. However,
it is ok to
make
chemistry
puns periodically.

2. What is a Be+Ar-?  
A Polar Bear

3. What was the charge when NaCl was arrested?
A salt!

4. What results when a priest blesses an avocado?
Holy Guacamole!
What does this have to do with chemistry –
it is a stretch but the mole is Avogadro’s number of units.

5. What are HIJKLMNO, (H2O)3(s), and CH2O?
What are HIJKLMNO, (H2O)3(s), and CH2O?
water (H to O), ice cubes, sea water

6. What is  ?
galvanized chicken wire

7. What is HeN(ZnI)4 ?
chicken tetrazzini
(Note HeN)

8. Sailing, sailing over the seven seas
Sing 2[NaCl](aq) C7
Sailing, sailing over the seven seas
[NaCl](aq) is a salt or saline solution.

9. DRINKING, SWIMMING, DOGS IRRIGATION, TRANSPORTATION
H2O is water and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide.
What is H2O4?
What is AlPO4?
DRINKING, SWIMMING, DOGS
IRRIGATION, TRANSPORTATION

10. What is:
CH3CH2CH2O  ?
purple people eater
propyl people ether

11. What does a doctor try to do to his patients and what happens if the doctor is not successful?
helium or curium,
barium

12. The 3rd most abundant gas in dry air is
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQSTUVWXYZ ?

13. What you might like to do to a big meanie.
Platinum (Pt)
(You think this is bad but just wait.)

14. Overtime pay for a policeman! Copper nitrate
What is Cu(NO3)2? 
Overtime pay for a policeman!
Copper nitrate
(technically copper(II) nitrate
or cupric nitrate)
Cu(NO3)2 Cu(NO3)23 H2O

15. A word for a funny prisoner -
Silicon (Si)
Told you it would get worse.

16. Who is 007's Eskimo cousin?
Polar Bond
(e.g. as in the bonds in water)

17. he saw his wife's dentist bill.
Fred yelled "CH3CF3" when
he saw his wife's dentist bill.
Ethyl, try fluoride!
CH3CF3 is 1,1,1-ethyltrifluoride
Ethyl and Fred on I Love Lucy

18. Transistor, transparent and sis boom bah.
What are ?
cis-dichloroethylene trans-dichloroethylene
Transistor, transparent and sis boom bah.

19. What does one trogen say to another on the way to bed?
Nitrogen (N2)
You did not think it existed, did you? Trogen is in Switzerland.

20. What did one termite say to the other?
Boron (B)

21. Sn2+
DOU ?
Sn2+ is the symbol for the tin(II) ion which has the common name stannous.
Therefore, the question above is Do You Understand Us?

22. A 1 molar solution. A 2 molar solution.
Concentrations in chemistry are most commonly
given in molarity or moles/L. What are the following?
A 1 molar solution. A 2 molar solution.

23. If is isopropyl benzene, what is ?
Mercedes Benz

24. The 3 dichlorobenzenes are
para-dichlorobenzene ortho-dichlorobenzene meta-dichlorobenzene
What are ?
paradox orthodox metaphor

25. HClO2(aq) is chlorous acid. What is
HClO2(aq), HClO2(aq), HClO2(aq), HClO2(aq), HClO2(aq)?

26. A really pressing thing and the opposite of roofing.
Iron (Fe) Fluorine (F)

27. The remaining slides will be considered by some
to be politically incorrect or risque.
Assume the responsibility if you choose to proceed on.

28. Cyclopropane is pictured to the right
Cyclopropane is pictured to the right. What is the name of the structure below?
Cycloprofane

29. King of Aragon, ate the first burrito.
When was the first Noble gas (the noble gases are also called the inert gases – He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn and perhaps Og) produced?
In 1164 AD, after Alfonso II,
King of Aragon, ate the first burrito.
Disclaimer – the above might not be historically accurate.
Actually, Sir William Ramsey with Lord Raleigh
discovered many of the inert gases in the 1890’s.
Helium had been observed in the sun in 1868 by
the French astronomer Jules Janssen.

30. What does the structure below represent?
is hexachlorobenzene.
What does the structure below
represent?
It is the world’s best
oral contraceptive. Why?
It says no in every position!