Don’t Be So Acrid
History behind Nursery Rhymes
Quotable Quotes
200

This is the chemical formula of Nitric Acid.

HNO3

200

Many scholars believe Ring Around the Rosie is about this disease.

What is the bubonic plague? (Black Death)

200

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

400

This is the acid that makes up vinegar.

What is acetic acid?

400

Mary Mary Quite Contrary is about this woman whose garden is actually a reference to graveyards and flowers that are torture devices.

Who is Mary Tudor or Bloody Mary?

400

All that glisters is not gold

Often have you heard that told.

Who is William Shakespeare?

600

This acid is in the name of a metabolic pathway also known as the Krebs cycle.

What is Citric Acid?

600

Humpty Dumpty is actually this.

What is a cannon?

800

When dealing with superacids, chemists use this scale instead of pH.

What is the Hammett acidity function?

800

Rock a bye Baby is actually about this English King.

Who is King James II?

1000

This is the strongest known acid.

What is the helium hydride ion, hydridohelium ion or helonium?

H0 = -63.  BTW Sulfuric acid is H0 = -11.9 and the scale is logarithmic

1000

Here we go round the mulberry bush is about this place.

What is Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire?