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Chemistry: Resonance Structures

Resonance StructuresChemistryBonding and Structure in Covalent CompoundsCovalent Compounds Get MysteriousThe Mystery and Wonder of Hybrid OrbitalsDrawing Lewis StructuresResonance StructuresValence…

Chemistry: Succeeding Where Others Have Failed

Succeeding Where Others Have FailedChemistryWhy Study Chemistry?Why Do We Need Chemistry?What Have I Gotten Myself Into?This Stuff Is Really Fun!Who Invented Chemistry?Succeeding Where Others Have…

Chemistry: The Combined Gas Law

The Combined Gas LawChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsThe Combined Gas LawAvogadro…

Chemistry: Why Do We Need Chemistry?

Why Do We Need Chemistry?ChemistryWhy Study Chemistry?Why Do We Need Chemistry?What Have I Gotten Myself Into?This Stuff Is Really Fun!Who Invented Chemistry?Succeeding Where Others Have Failed "…

Brewer's: Paddi-whack

means an Irish wag, wag being from the Saxon wág-ian. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PaddyPaddock A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…

Brewer's: Wan

means thin. (Anglo-Saxon, wan, “deficient”; our wane, as the “waning moon.”) As wasting of the flesh is generally accompanied with a grey…

Brewer's: Yawn

Greek, chaino; German, gahnen; Anglo-Saxon, gan-ian. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Yea, YesYarmouth Capons A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…

Brewer's: Beetle

(To). To overhang, to threaten, to jut over (Anglo-Saxon, beot-ian, to menace). Hence beetle or beetled brow. Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles o'er his base into the…

Brewer's: Abyssinians

Abyssin′ians A sect of Christians in Abyssinia, who admit only one nature in Jesus Christ, and reject the Council of Chalcedon. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Ding-dong

They went at it ding-dong. Fighting in good earnest. To ding is to beat or bruise (Saxon dencgan) dong is a responsive word. One gives a ding and the other a dong. Din is the Anglo-Saxon…