Blog for a Cure

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Due to the support for this blog, we have now raised $62ish, all of which will go towards the Chordoma Foundation. Thank you.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Funny names/symbols in science

Siemen: a unit of conductivity (sorry about the immaturity but laughs are hard to come by these days)

Ohm: a unit of resistance (funny on two fronts: 1. the symbol looks like the lululemon symbol and 2. if you stretch out the pronunciation it sounds like you are meditating perhaps while wearing lululemon designed clothing)

Gay-Lussac: French chemist who determined the relationship between pressure and temperature in gases.(Only a French person could pull off that name and not sound funny)

That`s all for now. Kind of a pathetic list but I have exams to study for. It`s not like this blog is meant to entertain you. Well, actually I guess it is. More will come as I find it.

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