Organelle: the precursor to today’s accordion.
Spectrum: What Blofeld’s Jamaican branch drinks exclusively at meetings.
Stomata: when you’re so hungry you feel like calling your mom.
Avogadro’s Number: 08 09 17 26 32 42
Amedeo Avogadro always used this exact sequence for his weekly ticket purchases in the Sardinian lottery, a mix of his birth date and his “lucky” numbers. On August 5, 1820 he hit the jackpot, winning 25 million Sardinian liras, which allowed him to quit his job messing around in the lab and live a life of luxury, eventually owning more Italian sports cars than most noblemen of his day.
(A sentence this not…)
Wave function: hello, good bye, shh, or no.
(inspired by PlaceboTarget, above)
sine wave: Saying ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘shh’, or ‘no’ using ASL.
-“BB”-
Clausius-Clapeyron relation: Heinrich, the strange brother of famed German physicist Rudolf Clausius-Clapeyron. He frequently wandered around town with a constant grin and wildly glazed eyes. There was obviously something wrong with him, but out of respect for Rudolf Clausius-Clapeyron, the founder of modern thermodynamic theory, Heinrich was merely referred to as “Rudolf’s relation” or “the Clausius-Clapeyron relation” and people declined to talk about it very much. He was mostly harmless but was known to chase squirrels.
Cherenkov Radiation: how COVID-19 gets passed around
Libration: Yeah, I’ve had more than a few, but the Moon is wobbling anyway. (hic)
Fungal: one-night stand.
barycenter: inside a jelly donut
Pharmacology: The study of how cow, pig and sheep poop affect local plant growth.
Marker: Someone who looks more genuinely like Mark than Mark himself.
Singularity: The condition of being unmarried.
Quantum foam: Excessive sudsing usually due to carelessly using too much quantum soap. Often happens in households with singularities.
De Sitter space: A seat that is available for you to sit in.
Anti de Sitter space: A seat that you’re not allowed to sit in.
Minkowski space: A seat permanently reserved for Hermann Minkowski, so don’t even think about it.
Supercluster: A really big cluster, or one with superpowers.
Gluon: To attach using adhesive; e.g.- “that there letter ain’t going nowhere because you forgot to gluon a stamp”.
Eclipse: 'ow 'e cuts 'is 'air.
Meson: Willie up to bat
Gaseous: Wasn’t he a boxer? Last name was “Glay”?