I was walking across St. Mark's Place yesterday, when I saw a seriously messed-up van:
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| Seriously messed-up van. |
Suddenly, something stood out from the mess of black paint:
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| The chemical symbol for octane. |
It was the chemical symbol for octane, straddling the fuel tank! Then, I noticed more chemical symbols, painted all over the van:
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| 1,3-Butadiene. |
1,3-butadiene, used in the production of synthetic rubber.
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| Ammonia. |
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| Carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. |
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| Sulpheric acid. |
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| Nitric acid. |
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| Hydrogen cyanide + water. |
HCN + H2O = CN + H3O, or cyanide and hydronium — betcha didn't know that!
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| Channel 4. Ha ha, just kidding! It's methane. |
Methane — what
cows burp!
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| Theophylline. |
Wikipedia lists
three results for this compound. I'm going to go with theophylline, a methylxanthine drug used in therapy for respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
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| Methane again. |
I read in a fortune cookie once: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear". This van is out there, if you're ready to learn chemistry!
#eastvillage #chemistry #chemistryvan #graffiti #paint #stmarksplace
it seems like that van describes all the chemicals that it produces.
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