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Mark

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Date registered: April 11, 2012

Biography

Mark Lorch has PhD in biochemist and is a lecture at the University of Hull, UK. As well as research, teaching and blogging he can sometimes be found 'science busking' on the streets of Yorkshire. Sometimes his favourite tricks end up in his blogs. Oh, and he tweets @sci_ents.

Latest posts

  1. Behind door number 9. The surprise discovery of viagra — December 9, 2013
  2. Behind door number 6 is phlogiston — December 5, 2013
  3. Chemical limericks for advent. 5th December: — December 5, 2013
  4. Chemical Limericks for Advent 4: DNA — December 4, 2013
  5. Chemical Limericks for Advent 3: Charles goodyear, RUBBER! — December 2, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Helium for balloons but none for my NMR — 15 comments
  2. Space dinosaurs, the saga continues — 14 comments
  3. The Underground Map of the Elements — 14 comments
  4. Bloggers are time wasters — 13 comments
  5. Taking a dinosaur’s name in vain. — 10 comments

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Dec 09

Behind door number 9. The surprise discovery of viagra

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The blog has been down for a few days so we’ve missed a few advent limericks. Normal service not resumed.   Surprise discovery of viagra A drug called sildenafil citrate, Was meant to make vessels dilate, Angina would fast, Be a thing of the past, If the side effects didn’t negate.   It’s not that …

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Dec 05

Behind door number 6 is phlogiston

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Nick is still churning out  cracking chemistry limericks for advent. Hope you are enjoying them.   Phlogiston When trying to explain combustion, Alchemists had a conjunction, The theory decreed, For fire you need, A material containing phlogiston. But phlogiston is obscene, Its existence has never been, Fire’s explanation, Lies in fast oxidation, A theory unflawed it …

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Dec 05

Chemical limericks for advent. 5th December:

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Don’t drop nitroglycerine! A pyromaniac sealed his fate When nitroglycerine did detonate A flask dropped to the floor He was no more Due to its shockingly sensitive state. By Nicholas Dawson

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Dec 04

Chemical Limericks for Advent 4: DNA

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The structure we all know today, To be that of DNA, Watson and Crick’s Double Helix, Deduced by Franklin’s diffracting X-rays, The discovery was a great occasion, For those of Darwinian persuasion, Crick and Watson recorded, How genomes are ordered, Much to biologists elation. By Nicholas Dawson

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Dec 02

Chemical Limericks for Advent 3: Charles goodyear, RUBBER!

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  When rubber started to be used In tires and tubing and shoes In the cold it would shatter, in the heat it would splatter And abrase when hardly abused   Charles Goodyear by chance would discover A way to strengthen his rubber When into his pot, some sulphur was knocked What came out was …

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Dec 01

Chemical rhymes for Advent 2: The discovery of phosphorous

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Before chemistry really evolved Alchemists tried to make gold They mixed stuff together To find out whether It’d form enough gold to behold In the seventeenth century An alchemist boiled up his wee It stared to spark and glow in the dark Though making gold wasn’t to be It’s a shame it wasn’t more prosperous …

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