I think it means that the gas was passed through some activated charcoal that was made from bone. Could be wrong.

I still say finger cots have the highest giggle factor for anything in the lab.

I don’t know about the context for a gas, but for a solid I think it means the weight of the substance with the equilibrium moisture content removed.

And what bone is the reference bone? Homo sapiens? Homo habilis? E. Coli?

Perhaps because the term ‘desiccated’ only refers to solids? ;¬)

Wow, now that it’s a technical term I’ll have to use it more often!

Personally, the talk of penetration caught my attention in pchem…..

Hartree fock gets quite a few eyebrow raises in lecture, but my personal favorite is mother liquor.

Hello. Separatory Funnel? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

(Maybe I’m doing this wrong.)

Two words: Wang resin.

In organic synthesis uncontrolled cleavage is always a problem.

back-side attack and intimate ion pairs always did it for me

I always laugh when I see the abbreviation Anal. Chem.

Invagination. I asked a question to confirm what I’m seeing on a slide. At a group meeting. The boss’ reaction was “life is high school”.

In school we used to love to discuss how s-p hybridized orbital properties varied as a function of the ‘p-ness’ of the orbitals…

And I can’t see the abbreviation for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science without snickering. I snicker even louder when someone goes out of their way to pronounce it ” puh NAHS”.

Inside I’m always saying “I got yer ‘puh NAHS’ right here, scooter…”, especially when it is someone far more famous and scienceriffic than I will ever be saying it.

That is truly funny. I’m glad you captured this image.