fandomhigh | Chemistry; Tuesday, Period One [ 03/22 ].

"Mornin', kids," Kūkaku said at the start of class, nodding to a large box on one of the lab tables. "Help yerselves to some cupcakes....if ya trust 'em. Let's just say, I was inspired by last week."

Whether or not she was inspired in a good way or a bad, though, she wasn't saying. (The students would be glad to know that there were no explosive surprises hidden in the buttercream).

"An' it'll give ya something to do while I talk about acids and bases."

Because, of course, this required a good sized lecture on how people had to actually discover a simple concept like acids and bases, with all the diagrams and chemical equations and everything quickly filling up the whiteboard.

"Technically," Kūkaku allowed, "I probably shoulda talked about this stuff a while ago, but acid and base reactions tend to be...subtle. I ain't so good with subtle. And this," she put down the marker so she could hold up a few pieces of paper, "is litmus. The way litmus works is probably more interestin' than what it actually does: it's a water-soluble mixture dyes extracted from lichens that will react, chemically, to tell us whether a substance is acidic or alkaline. So guess what we're doin' today. Figuring it out.

"Find a partner and a lab table, where you'll find some substances and some litmus papers. Your activity today is going to try to identify the substance first, figure out if you think it's an acid or a base, and then use the litmus paper to find out if you were right or wrong. If it turns red, it's an acid. If it's blue, it's a base. The darkness of the colour can show how acidic or alkaline it is. And if ya wanna be really nerdy about it," which she was pretty sure most of the class would want to be, "go ahead and figure out exactly what it is. By any means you know how except tasting the damn things. I don't wanna have to cart any of over to the clinic for bein' complete idiots."

"Any questions? If not, I'll let ya get to work."

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As an acid or a base.

Alex Russo, base.

Jonothon Starsmore, acid.

Bobby McCallister, neutral just like non-acid rain.

Tony Stark, base

William Murdoch, acid

Andrew Wiggin, base.

Dana Scully, acid

Chuck Bartowski, base.

Andros, acid

Elle Bishop, acid

Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis, acid

Jack McCallister, base

Learn about acids and bases and cupcakes!

Find a partner and figure out if what you've got are acids, bases, lions, tigers, or bears. Feel free to mod to your heart's contents or just gossiping about how sexy chemistry is.

Um. Chemistry was always sexy. Much like all sciences.

Even if Tony was mostly just playing with the litmus papers. Because someone here was too smart for school. Yeah, he totally went there.

"I don't think we're supposed to be playing with the papers," Elle said as she approached Tony. "Hi. Need a partner?"

But they made for wonderful folded little things! Tony shrugged, pushing his pile of abused litmus papers aside. "Sure. You ever worked with this before?"

Now, if you could get a little paper football out of one of them, then Elle would be all for playing with the little papers.

"Nope. At least, I don't think I have. We did a lot of stuff in her other class last semester when I was her TA; I can't remember if we covered this."

"Another chemistry class?"

"Nope." Elle grinned cheerfully. "A class on bombs and how to blow stuff up. But she covered a lot of stuff in that class."

"Oh." Well, that just explained so much about Miss Shiba. "Well, it's not hard. Just dipping the papers into liquids and seeing what color it changes."

Yeaaaah, Chuck was bright enough not to go eating strange things in order to figure out what they were. Even smelling them was likely to be a little on the unsafe side, depending on the chemical.

So for now, he was just observing them, and toying with his litmus paper while he looked out for a partner.

Kūkaku knows she doesn't have to worry about him tasting the samples to see if they're acids or bases, but she feels you could probably tell a lot more from the reaction if he did than from just the measly litmus paper.

Probably, yes. But the reaction would likely be far more verbal than chemical.

Meanwhile, Jono was beginning to think of this course as cupcake class. And was possibly eyeing those cupcakes longingly. A little. Maybe.

She's there to talk about acids, bases, or anything else you might need.

I swear, litmus never seemed to work for me. I was horrible in chemistry.

Oh, good! Not just me, then.

This was particularly unfortunate when I was the one who had to stabilize the PH levels in an outdoor pool all summer at one place of employment. All the chlorine in the world could not save that poor thing.

This is why I'm an artist, not a chemist.

OMG, same here. I'm all, "LITMUS WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO???"

I don't remember ever using litmus paper in chemistry.

I suspect this is because I blocked it out.

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