{"id":131,"date":"2009-10-16T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/10\/polymer-humor.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:04","slug":"polymer-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/10\/polymer-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was forwarded to me today from the EHS office. Acrylonitrile&#8217;s formula H<sub>2<\/sub>C=CH-CN. Nerd humor based on a CN triple bond.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Acrylic&#8221; is a common textile material. It is favored for its wool-like<br \/>\nfeel and commonly used in socks. &#8220;Acrylic&#8217; is really polyacrylonitrile.<br \/>\nPolyacrylonitrile is a nice way of saying polyvinyl cyanide. Do you<br \/>\nthink anyone would buy socks made from polyvinyl cyanide? If you knock<br \/>\nsome socks off the shelf in your local discount store, do not run up to<br \/>\nthe clerk and announce, &#8220;There is a polyvinyl cyanide spill in aisle<br \/>\n10&#8242;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy Fall Break!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was forwarded to me today from the EHS office. Acrylonitrile&apos;s formula H2C=CH-CN. Nerd humor based on a CN triple bond. &quot;Acrylic&quot; is a common textile material. It is favored for its wool-like feel and commonly used in socks. &quot;Acrylic&apos;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-lecture","tag-polymer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/5164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}