Christmas Chemistry
This element is the in one that makes fire yellow
What is Carbon (charcoal)
Why you cannot trust atoms.
Who plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the Muppet’s Christmas Carol?
Who is Michael Kane
The alchemical symbol for this element is a crescent moon shape.
What is Silver
Dmitry Mendeleev was a teacher of a chemistry who began work on the periodic table in the 1860’s and was from this country.
What is Russia
Though many Christmas lights are LED now the older incandescent lights have a filament made of this element.
What is Tungsten (W)
An optimist see the glass half full, a pessimist sees the glass half empty, and this is how a chemist sees that glass.
Completely full, half with liquid and half with gas
Everyone knows Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the movie Jingle All the Way. Who played the mailman counterpart?
Who is Sinbad
The alchemical symbol for this element is a circle with a got in the middle. It shares the same symbol with as that for the sun.
What is Gold
The primary element found in Isaiah's farts.
What is Nitrogren
This is the chemical formula for snow.
What is H2O
A neutron walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “How much for a beer?”. The bartender said this.
“For you, no charge”
In the movie Elf, Buddy states that elves have four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and this liquid.
What is Syrup
Nuclear waste is a mixture of isotopes. A radioactive isotope of this element is used to test people’s thyroid.
What is Iodine
The more common name for Sodium bicarbonate, also an essential ingredient in all of Natalie's cookies.
What is Baking Soda
This chemical gives pine trees their characteristic aroma.
What is Pinene (alpha or beta)
If H2O is water, what is H2O4?
Acceptable: drinking, bathing, swimming, etc.
In National Lampoons: Christmas Vacation Clark Girswald is a flavor chemist. He plans on using his ‘rumored ‘Christmas bonus to buy his family this.
What is a Swimming Pool
The pursuit of the alchemist was to turn elements into gold with the symbol Au. What latin word is Au derived from?
What is Aurum
This element has physical and chemical properties similar to those of its two vertical neighbors in the periodic table, calcium and barium, and was Dr. Guillet's username for many years.
What is Strontium