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March 26, 2008 |
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Chemical Reaction
FOUND by Jordan Eldredge
in southern California, near CSU Northridge
I assume it is part of some school assignment, but I wonder why it was printed up on a half sheet of paper…
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I wonder why they'd demonstrate it to their family, and not to the class or the teacher... I could demonstrate how some other chemicals react upon families... but that's a whole 'nother story.
Hmmmmm demonstrate in a good way or bad way? :O
I was never good in chemistry =(
Aren't those the lyrics to a Bush song?
as far as we can tell, that mixture does nothing but create bubbles.
This screams grade/middle school science fair project. Surely this half sheet was pasted to a poster board display for the student's experiment. A family audience makes more sense in that case.
And I'm with "i'm no chemist" -- nothing startling about this reaction as far as I can tell, but there may be other reagents ("the chemicals" might not refer to H2 and H2O) involved that do react together. And if by "hydrogen" he means the hydrogen ions (i.e. protons) of an acid solution (like aqueous solutions of HCl or H2SO4), then you might witness the effects of pH on a chemical reaction. But "hydrogen mixed with H2O" would be a pretty unclear and unconventional way to refer to acidic solutions. But it wouldn't be out of the question for a junior scientist...
Now if it were H2 + O2 = BOOM! -- now that's another matter! A fifth grader reenacting the Hindenburg, now THAT'S worth a blue ribbon!
Whoa. But now I'm getting caught up trying to reconstruct the "actual" meaning of the find. That's not as interesting as the funky stuff we do with them, eh?
Your family will smile and nod.
it could be a palm card for a kids speech?
maybe.
probably not.
I would never mix hydrogen and H2O and, if I did, I would never demonstrate the reaction of those chemicals to anyone in my family. I would certainly never type out a promise to do so. Never put any thing in writing.
i would demonstrate to my moronic colleague how the chances of being fired react together when piss-poor performance and ignorance are mixed together.
this was a hard one,probably due to the poor sentence structure and repetition of ideas and words. impress me with your wit, friends.
Sounds like an extract from Oliver Sacks's book 'Uncle Tungsten' about his childhood interests. Only it would have involved much more interesting chemicals -- probably heavy metals -- and his English would have been better.
(His family's reaction: 'Oh, Oliver, I wish you'd grow up to be a doctor like your mother and father.' [He did.])
PS:
'Find of the Day' coming up with a random old one again. Is this a wicked plot to keep things stirred up and interesting??
Instead of Hydrogen the writer meant Methane and this was a caption of the writer farting in the bathtub.
And I would demonstrate how quickly Homeland Security responds when someone in "Sothern California" finds the key part of a terrorist's formula and posts it on this web site.
It was either part of a larger project on some tag board or the poor teacher has to buy her own paper and prints short things up on half sheets. I did that all the time when I was teaching, providing paper for 180 days of school when you have 160 students is expensive.
An answer to the question "What would you do if you found out you only had one day left to live"? The point, perhaps, is that the chemical reaction will be analogous to how the individuals in his/her family relate to one another, thereby allowing the writer to impart a meaningful lesson before he/she demises.
Chemistry night at the Jones!!!!I wish my family nights rocked like that
"You put the lime in the coconut, you drink it all up..."
I would demonstrate to my co-worker Susan how the synapse in my brain react together when the Taylor Hicks ring tone on her cell phone and my auditory nerve are mixed together.
Monkeywrench: I think you may have just come up with the theme for the Lars' Turn-the-Find-into-a-Party Game. Well done, mate!
I thought home-schooled kids weren't suppose to learn science....
@ Lars:
I would demonstrate to my family how the colors react together when the darks and lights are mixed together (in the washing machine.)
@Turbo: Heh. No no. Just not "normal" science: I did ethno-botany and ornithology; a friend of mine did something weird involving God and a potato, and another kid I knew liked to explode things in his parent's basement. Hey: Whatever keeps 'em interested, right?
monkeywrench- you were homeschooled? I am taking my kids out this year to keep them home- they aren't learning a bit in public schools other than how to survive the other brats and how to take tests.
@Trisha: Yup, I was home schooled from the age of 8 until 17. I loved it.
Would this produce Hydrogen Perioxide?
Definately a science project; just completed two of them. Unfortunately for my youngest daughter, we could get mold to grow. And for my son, we couldn't get his seedling to grow, either.
I mean, we could not get mold to grow.
If I found out I only had one day left to live?!?!
Honestly I would get a six pack, pizza and some really good video games. Yeah.....
I would just chill out like it was any other day.
@monkeywrench- good to hear you loved it! Seems to me that is the only answer I get when I ask about homeschool experiences- everyone says they loved it, it was great, etc.
@nadine- I knew what you meant about the mold. :) And as for the seed, well, maybe you got one of the Emperors seeds?
http://tinyurl.com/3ccsjl
@Lurking- no more "Sothern." Thanks for the heads up!
@trishia - Thanks, what a nice story! We ended up coming up with conclusions about why the projects did not work, so they actually learned something anyway. And they did the projects themselves (except for the typing), unlike some of the other projects that were obviously built by adults. I swear, I think one kid's dad built nuclear-powered robot or something. :)
I would demonstrate to the mail-delivery guy how silencing himself and buggering off would be beneficial to his health.
Twit.
reminds me of
http://engrish.com/image/engrish/water-underco
Engrish.com
(Dear, dear Jason, will you someday again trust us enough to allow html? hmmm? Please?)
http://engrish.com/image/engrish/water-
underconstruction.jpg
Captain, more upgrades on the way!
Give 'er all ya got!
@Jason ... thanks, of course, but I'm still thinking about calling Homeland Security to report posting this key part of the formula!
I'm thinking one of two things on this one.
1.) This seems like it's not complete.
"I would demonstrate to my family....."
But?
2.) I was remembering when I was in school and they would make you look up and write the def. of certain words in a chapter you were reading. Following the definition we would have to write a scentence using a word or some of the words that we had definded. This looks like it could be something like that.
It sucks that the menu on the top of the page covers up the letters on the first few posts.
=(
I'm not sure why I care so much about that.
Bubbles is right!
If he is making carbonated water, I would like some, with a slice of lemon please!!
Just wondering - wouldn't carbonated water be a combination of Carbon and H20, not Hydrogen?
@ Lurking: homeland security probably already monitors this site. c'mon, doesn't it make sense to? our libraries, our phone lines, our www?
@ homeland security: yeah, you heard me. ooooooh.
We are a rather incendiary bunch. I know I would monitor us.
2H2 + O2 = 2H2O Hydrogen + Oxygen = Water
@lars..I can't stop laughing.
Would to God I had been homeschooled! Not that my homelife was so great, but school was my worst nightmare.
I'm with Prospero: "Me, poor man--my library was dukedom large enough." Just turn me loose in the library and let me read in peace. I guarantee I would have read everything they had, reference books and periodicals included. And certainly come out better informed than I did from the local high.
@ The Cat in The Hat: it's true that that reaction makes water, but it needs a "spark" and produces a LOT of energy. When the Hindenburg exploded that was nothing more or less than 2H2 + 02...
Orinoco, surely you mean burrow schooled?
home school + kids = weird
high school is bad (so i'm told), but not as bad as failure to be properly socialized. look at me: product of home schooling. a misanthrope and recluse. home schooling messed up my whole family. therapy is helping.
I work everyday, so I couldn't home school my children. I think they enjoy school, though, except for homework and other normal kid dramas.
@orinoco: prospero was weird -- and machiavelian
@lost- that is an antique argument- the whole social thing- my kids will have many opportunities for time with other kids, I will likely have to limit some of it to allow us to be home during parts of the day. Homeschool is not always home at school, it is just where the parents take total responsibility for their children's education. That could take place at the local state park, an animal shelter, the library, a bakery- the list is endless.
And their friends will not just be all of the same sex and same age- which is abnormal if you ask me. Instead, they will be allowed friendships with kids of varying ages, with adults, and with both boys and girls. Much more like "real world" life, no?
sad that your parents were unable to find ways to get you out with friends. hope you have some now. :)
@trishia: you're it. and its clear we are talking about very different generations of home schooling. so maybe my experience is antique.
OK, here's a new one, people. Just added some "previous" and "next" arrows to your profiles, so we can all breeze through and see what other people have written and favorited. While looking just now, I couldn't help but LOVE this one:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/users/profile/231
Check it! And happy browsing to you.
@lost- I am sorry- in re-reading my comment I realize it sounded rude. In talking to my family, letting them know what we are doing, all I hear is "but the kids won't have any friends!" and I am getting a bit oversensitive to it... so I am sorry if I insulted you.
and yes, homeschooling now is very different than it was a generation ago- with more than a million kids (about one in every 33 kids) being hs in the USA now, there are many more opportunities for the kids to do things out of the house with other kids. parents everywhere are forging groups and doing a lot of really neat things.
how in the world did we get on this topic from a silly science project note? crazy.
ok- this is the most times in one day that I've ever checked found... I am off the computer for the night, but will check back on this page tomorrow morning.
Thanks for more arrows, Jason. I love to see who has the same favorites as me. You and I both favor "The Hang"!
It sure has been nice in here the past few days (even when it was gross *Loofah* haha!) Thank you for all the cool updates and for caring about us as a community.
Love,
Miss Nightingale
Trishia - I am starting home-schooling, too - next year for my 7yo! I can't wait til I can have more time with him than his great but normal school has allowed.
For starters I would explain to my family that Chemistry is made up and that I don't like it. Take that Mrs. Ritter.
Benjammin rocks.
@marie- have you found any online groups yet? There is a pretty good one over on ivillage.com, just find their message boards and look for homeschooling... they are pretty active, and give great advice and answers to questions I've had so far.
I've been browsing thru the member list by number for a while now, and I'm still wondering why there's no #72. Not that it matters, but still.
I agree with Nightingale that it's been .. a kinder gentler Found Comment Board lately. I can't help but wonder whether or not this has anything to do with the possible outcome of a certain recent .. poll?
How did that end up, anyway?
Kinder and gentler seems to mean chat room message board. The finds are not all kind and gentle. Life is not. I LIKE to read people's spicy comments. Not home school advice and tofu recipes. How unFound.
disgusted, there's a big difference between "spicy comments" and downright internet harassment, (often referred to as trolling and or cyber bullying,) with a little cyber stalking thrown in.
There's a point where it becomes something beyond spicy or flavorful entertainment. It's not about freedom of speech. It's about the number one rule, spoken or not, it's understood: "don't be a jerk."
When a rule is violated repeatedly, brazenly, defiantly, day after day, should there be no consequence?
Hey, disgusted in Blue Heaven! How about a SPICY tofu recipe? LOL
Jason, thanks for the mention. What an honor! But I can't log in.
Oh woops. Wrong email address. Finally figured it out. Thanks (on the record) for the mention. It really is an honor. Keep on Posting Awkward Kids and If you don't mind I'll keep on lifting them for the awkward blog.
cheers!
Shadow, I was not referring to Pepper. So your educational essay was not necessary. It's just my opinion.