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The carbonyl is polarized,
The delta end is plus.
The nucleophile will thus attack,
The carbon nucleus.
Addition makes an alcohol,
Of types there are but three.
It makes a bond, to correspond,
From C to shining C.
-- Prof. Frank Westheimer, to "America the Beautiful"
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The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used.
-- Herbert von Fritzlar
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 409 of 2171 |
The Celts invented two things, Whiskey and self-distruction.
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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to carry them, and
sometimes three.
-- Alexandre Dumas
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The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to show up
at the steam fitters picnic.
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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
-- Eric Sevareid
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The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense
-- Picasso
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The church is near but the road is icy,
the bar is far away but I will walk carefully.
-- Russian Proverb
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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The City of Palo Alto, in its official description of parking lot standards,
specifies the grade of wheelchair access ramps in terms of centimeters of
rise per foot of run. A compromise, I imagine...
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