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pH story (as found on usenet)
« on: October 20, 2006, 03:12:38 AM »
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The story is told (I'd love to confirm this but have been unable to) of a professor testifying before Congress of the work he had done on a project, and how proud he was that he how lowered the pH of the waste from 13 down to 7.  The congressperson then asks him:  "If you took the pH from 13 down to 7, why didn't you just take it all the way down to 0?"
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Re: pH story (as found on usenet)
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2006, 06:45:23 PM »
lol. :)

The poor uneducated politicians. ;)
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Re: pH story (as found on usenet)
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2006, 09:12:58 PM »
Clearly some people are NOT meant to be chemists  :P
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