15 Raunchy Chemical Terms That Sound So Crude the Other Scientists Will Soil Their Lab Coats
Is that a Dickite in your pocket or are you just a mineral composed of aluminum, silicon, hydrogen and oxygen?
There’s a lot going on with science. On the one hand, it’s an ongoing quest to try to make sense of the universe, to find order in chaos, to explain and define the extraordinarily complex processes going on all around us and within us. On the other, sometimes chemicals have funny names that sound like butts or whatever.
Scientists are generally fairly unshockable. The nature of the scientific method means they typically know what they’re looking at, and that they’re not prone to suddenly go, “Oh my god, poop!” if they’re analyzing fecal matter. But certain substances have names, for various reasons, that sound either shockingly horny or strikingly disgusting.
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