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Date: 16 January 2003 08:28 +0000
From: Alan Francis <afrancis@...>
To: BIOTUTOR-L@...
Subject: howlers

Just to brighten your days and to show that the chemists are losing the
race for popularity.

This was a common answer to a question in a mock chemistry paper about a
sulphuric acid plant.

Q. Why is the plant sited where it is?

A. All plants need need carbon dioxide to photosynthesise !!!!!!

Another gem with a biological twist

Q. How could you test for the presence of chlorine?

A. Take a sample of athletes foot fungus, pass it through the gas, if it
survives it's not chlorine!!!

I promise they are genuine!

Alan

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