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Non Life Sciences => Chemistry => Topic started by: miriam0920 on 23/11/2008 00:31:50

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: miriam0920 on 23/11/2008 00:31:50

Okay, I guess chemists knows the answer to staying thin.  I guess with all those reactants and products they know how to combine what with what.
Am I right or not?  Please all those chemist out there speak out.

Thank you.

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: Bored chemist on 23/11/2008 10:08:09

I guess that chemists have to understand the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of mass.

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: lyner on 23/11/2008 16:07:24

And some of them react very fast. This could indicate a high metabolic rate.

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: Make it Lady on 23/11/2008 16:14:55

I never used to be fat but middle aged spread is beginning to show its ugly head. I am a tubby chemist. I don't think being a chemist keeps you thin. I know lots of fat chemists. Sorry to shatter your illusion.

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: blakestyger on 23/11/2008 18:52:51

More likely to see a fat priest - where the Word really has become flesh. [;D]

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: lightarrow on 23/11/2008 21:51:36

Quote from: miriam0920 on 23/11/2008 00:31:50

Okay, I guess chemists knows the answer to staying thin.  I guess with all those reactants and products they know how to combine what with what.

Ah, yes, if you drink 10 L of CCl₄ every day, I imagine it could help dissolving the fat away... [:)]
(Hope you don't try it, it was a joke! That compound is mortal in little amounts!)

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: miriam0920 on 25/11/2008 00:10:45

Carbon tetracloride? Just came to my thoughts.  I really don't know that many chemists to make a precise conclusion anyway. 
Thank you.

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: rosy on 25/11/2008 09:42:25

Fat chemists? Yes. I know several.

For knowing "how to combine what with what" to stay thin you might want a biochemist. Only they don't know either (if any of them did they'd be amazingly rich).

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: lightarrow on 25/11/2008 21:03:00

Quote from: miriam0920 on 25/11/2008 00:10:45

Carbon tetracloride?

Yes, it's a good solvent for fats.
Well, it's not really mortal, but carcinogenic, yes.

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: miriam0920 on 26/11/2008 01:04:35

so Carbon tetrachloride is found where?

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: miriam0920 on 26/11/2008 01:22:11

I believe that chemist should hold the key to the different reactions in the inorganic world as the organic world.  Studying reactions and electrons, and moles should at least show you how to control moles of something.  Am I right or wrong? 

Title: Have you ever seen a fat chemist?
Post by: rosy on 26/11/2008 09:14:02

Basically, wrong. Speaking as a chemist.
Studying the chemistry of systems, even systems of half-a-dozen types or molecule - much less complicated than the body - requires modelling at the edge of what we can currently do (often throw completely out by a small error in the measurement or calculation of one of the input parameters).
Chemisty is incrementally expanding its grasp of biology but there's a lo-o-o-o-o-ong way to go yet.