chemistry puns

CHEMICAL PUNS Matching Exercise

Choose the appropriate code from the possible answers provided below. If you are using a Scantron, mark all the letters of the correct answer.

1. What is ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQSTUVWXYZ ? __________

2. What is H₂O₄? __________

3. __________

4. What is AlPO₄? __________

5. What are HIJKLMNO, (H₂O)³(s), and CH₂O? __________

6. A really pressing thing. ___________

7. Who said HIOAg? ___________

8. What is ? ___________

9. Sing 2[NaCl](aq) ___________
C₇

10. What is ? ___________
11. What is a Be⁺Ar? ___________

12. What you might like to do to a big meanie. ___________

13. What is ? ___________

14. What is Cu(NO₃)₂? ___________

15. What are (Ber)₈ and (PuS)₈? ___________

16. A funny prisoner ___________

17. Who is 007's Eskimo cousin? ___________

18. O-CH₃___________

19. What does a doctor try to do to his patients
and what happens if the doctor fails? ___________

20. The opposite of roofing. ___________

21. Fred yelled "CH₃CF₃" when he saw his wife's dentist bill. ___________

22. What is a HCLO₂(aq) HCLO₂(aq) HCLO₂(aq) HCLO_2(aq) HCLO₂(aq) ? ___________

23. , ___________
24. What does one trogen say to another on the way to bed? ___________

25. What did one termite say to the other? ___________

26. HeN(ZnI)₄ ___________

27. CH₃CH₂CH₂ O                                           ___________
28. __Sn²⁺ ?                                                                                                     ___________
       DOU

29. What are a Ba(Na)₂ and a CFe₂O₃? ___________

30. What is (NH₂CONH₂)₂? ___________
31. , , ___________

ANSWERS

a. water, ice cubes , sea water
b. fluorine

c. chicken tetrazzini
d. a chorus line
e. drinking and swimming
ab. boron
ac. October or 8 people in an ice bath, octopus
ad. platinum
ae. helium or curium , barium