Chemistry; Tuesday, Period One [ 01/11 ].

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"Good job on survivin' yer first week of classes, kids," Kūkaku smirked at the assembled class in front of her. "I'm sure some of you have been workin' on your projects for this week, while the rest of you either slacked off or picked somethin' easy, so let's get those out of the way, and then move onto the lecture. There's safety goggles on yer desks; put 'em on so John Watson doesn't yell at me, and we'll get started. Stark, since you were so convinced yours couldn't be done, let's start with you."



It was always good to start the day with blowing things up.

But all good things eventually came to an end. "Now that the fun's over, we'll take five to clean up, and then get into the lecture. Atoms today. The very basis of what you just blew up. Starsmore, while everyone's gettin' ready, help the twins pass out the model kits. Careful not to melt the plastic."

"So, the atom." Kūkaku turned to the board and started to write. "Can't have matter without it, so that makes it pretty freakin' important. One dense, central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. Kinda like one dense high school student surrounded by a cloud of hormonally charged issues. Unless you're hydrogen-1, which is the only stable nucleoli without neutrons. All these electrons are bound to the nucleus by electromagnetic force, they're so small you can't even see 'em, blah blah blah, you should have all read about this in your textbooks.

"And when you put atoms together, you get molecules, the freakin' building blocks of life. If all the protons and electrons are equal, it's neutral; otherwise it's got a positive or negative charge and ya call it an ion. I, then, could consider myself like a negative charge ion, all things considered. If you honestly get what I mean by that and thought it was even remotely amusing, congratulations, you're a nerd.

"So where the hell did they get the word atom? It's Greek, meaning uncuttable, indivisible, cannot be divided any further. Well, I guess they shot themselves in the foot for that one, because you actually can split an atom and it's called nuclear fission, and it produces energy. This is nuclear transmutation, since you're essentially changin' the original element.

"Unfortunately, the products of nuclear fission are extremely radioactive, so we can't actually split an atom in class." Kūkaku really couldn't sound more disappointed that she already was. She sighed, shaking her head.

"So, instead!" Kūkaku whipped around from the blackboard with the gratuitous swinging of her cans. "All you guys get to do for a project today is build stupid models."

Hey, if she couldn't be happy, none of them could.

"Ya all got the atom building game at your desks, so find a partner, and build some damn atoms. You work with the periodic table to figure out how many electrons, neutrons, and protons you need and compete against the other person to make them. Or something. I don't know; you guys have eyes, you can read the instructions yourself. Or just make shit up. It doesn't really matter.



"If ya do want to make it a little exciting, though, and make certain combinations of atom models explode, this is a Shiba class, so it's mostly recommended. Any questions? If not, get to work. And don't forget to read the chapters for next week, too."


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Sign In - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Atomically.

Re: Sign In - Chemistry, 01/11.

[endsthegame]

Andrew Wiggin

Re: Sign In - Chemistry, 01/11.

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William Murdoch

Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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It was your task to find a compound that would make the element you chose last week go boom and explode. There are safety goggles, too. Wear them, or don't. Kūkaku doesn't care so long as no one needs to go to the clinic.

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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"Sulfur and carbon, mix with oxygen, are the basics of fireworks," Scully said, holding up tiny quantities of same. "Sulfur and charcoal, in this case, with saltpeter. Oh, and some bits of iron for color."

The bang! was louder than the size of the bright light, but the smoke still lingered for a bit.

Scully was looking fairly perky after this.

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Kūkaku could never have anything against fireworks. Well, she'd much prefer larger fireworks, but they were in a classroom.

"I like where ya went with that, Scully," she complimented with a smirk. "Now, tell me, you pick that because you know that's what I do, or is it mere coincidence?"

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Cassidy was very careful as she talked about Iridium and how in it's powdered form it had been known to ignite in air.

Yes, it ignited and made an impressive bit of smoke and light.

Thankfully the shield she had put up around her work station had kept the mini-explosion contained.

Cassidy was looking very fascinated by the bit of explosion.

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Kūkaku couldn't help smirking slightly. "Nice work; you blow things up often?"

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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"Antimony by itself," William said, utilizing a fume hood to do his presentation, since it wouldn't do to expose the classroom to toxic smoke, "is not generally explosive. However, there exists a very rare form of antimony trichloride, which, when heated..." he flicked a switch, raising the temperature inside the hood until-

there was a bang! and some white smoke filled the interior of the device.

"That," he finished neatly.

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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"Yeah," Kūkaku smirked despite this coming from the Plant. "That. No one take too big of a breath right away. Nice work, Murdoch."

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony, being the over-intelligent guy he was, ended up making a very small bomb. With robotic limbs. All in all, it managed to look like a spider.

"It's powered by Palladium, so we're just blowing that up."

With science, Tony. With science.

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Kūkaku just arched her eyebrow for a moment as she eyed the spider palladium robot, and then shook her head.

"Stark," she said, "you are a nerd."

It almost sounded like a good thing, though.

Re: Present your Homework - Chemistry, 01/11.

[furnaceface]

//I took the easy way out,// Jono admitted, as he (very, very carefully) filled a balloon with hydrogen gas and tied it to the back of a chair. //Hydrogen is fairly volatile just so long as there's anywhere from four to seventy-four percent volume concentration of it in the air, so...//

No, he wasn't going to use his powers for this. He did manage to scrounge up a rod, which produced fire at one end, and so, when it touched the balloon...

Fwoomp.

It could have been more flashy, certainly, but he was trying to go for a new track record involving days not lighting people on fire.

//I could have used chlorine, as well. But most people in th'room do seem to appreciate breathing.//

Listen to the Lecture - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Just be glad there are no jokes about solar energy being fusion because you can't go fission on the sun.

Oh, high school chemistry.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - Chemistry, 01/11.

[intraspective]

Ino was... well, a bit uncomfortable with the lecture. Last week hadn't been bad--even with the explosion it had been obvious that the guy who'd gotten exploded hadn't even been vaguely harmed, but she couldn't help the small twist in her stomach at the thought of blowing things up.

She took notes, but her thoughts kept drifting back to Konoha...

Re: Listen to the Lecture - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Joolushko was slightly disturbed that the instructor seemed to want to conduct nuclear experiments in class. This island was strange enough without adding radiation to the mix.

Play the Atom Building Game - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Find a partner and either take the Atomic Challenge or play Nuclear Reactions.

Atomic Challenge:
This is the simplest game, and a good one to start with. Everyone learns how to read the periodic table and the meaning of atomic number and mass number. The game starts by dividing the marbles evenly among all players. Yellow marbles represent electrons, green marbles protons, and blue marbles neutrons. All players should use the periodic table as a reference. For convenience, two laminated copies of the periodic table are included with
the game. The object of the game is to use up the allotted marbles by adding them to the board and correctly identifying the atom that has been made. The first player to run out of marbles wins.

Nuclear Reactions:
In this game, players learn about the elements, the constitution and structure of the atom, stable and unstable isotopes, atomic number and atomic mass. Considerable strategy can be involved. The game is played with marbles and the NUCLEAR REACTIONS cards. The objective of the game is
to score points by creating stable, neutral, or both stable and neutral atoms. Each player starts with 5 Nuclear Reactions cards and 8 of each
kind of particle: electrons, protons, and neutrons. Players take turns playing one card per turn, adding or subtracting particles from the atom as
instructed on the card played. For example, playing an ADD 3 PROTONS card would mean placing three green marbles on the game board. Each player draws a new card from the deck after each play to maintain a five card hand. If
necessary the played cards can be reshuffled and reused. Particles added or subtracted from the atom must be played from, or to, a player’s own
pocket of particles. Players may not play cards for which they do not have sufficient particles to make the specified move. For example, a player with only two protons left cannot play an ADD 3 PROTONS card. The first player to reach 20 points wins.

Or just make up your own rules.

Or just make atomic combinations and blow them up. It really doesn't matter.

Just check out page 9 of the instruction manual; it's kind of magical.

Re: Play the Atom Building Game - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Tony would be on the 'make your own rules' train for this project. But that was just because this was painfully old school. Couldn't they put it on the bizarrely-common-in-his-world holographic projectors?

No, seriously. It's a special place.

He would be an awesome partner if you could stand the whining thoughtful commentary.

Talk to the TA - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Hey! No violent chemicals to make the rest of his face blow off! Hooray!

Re: Talk to the TA - Chemistry, 01/11.

[furnaceface]

Yaaaay.

Really, who needed a chemical reaction when you had buggered-up genes to begin with?

Talk to Kūkaku - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Who may be modifying her own version of the Atom Building Game so all the little marbles go boom.

OOC - Chemistry, 01/11.

[boobs-and-bombs.livejournal.com]

Yes, 'can't go fission on the sun' was my high school chemistry teacher's second favourite science joke.

The first was how Mass over Density equals a broken heart. Think about it.

But, so help me, I did actually remember them...

Re: OOC - Chemistry, 01/11.

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Possibly stuuuuuupid question- this is a science-lab-y classroom, yeah? With things like fume hoods hangin' around?

Re: OOC - Chemistry, 01/11.

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I apologize ahead of time for Cassidy's overly excited fascination with how to blow tings up. *facepalms*

Re: OOC - Chemistry, 01/11.

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I am so awesomely observant that I managed to not only completely miss this class last week but also not even notice until the weekend.