# quixotic78 will define your own personal chemical! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2001, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444 "2001-10-04T20:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/21 "2001-10-04T21:55:18Z")
Do me, **quix**! ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/22 "2001-10-04T21:56:07Z")
I’ve just got to know what element or compound I turn out to be. The curiosity is giving me scrotal cramps. I wonder though, **quix** : does this identification process require any research? Or is it more of a chemico-psychic phenomenon? ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/23 "2001-10-04T22:02:34Z")
me too! ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/24 "2001-10-04T22:05:26Z")
Having done poorly (I think) on my AP Chemistry test today, I might as well find out what my chemical is. (P.S. Whatever you do, don’t make me sulfuric acid…lousy sulfuric acid…) ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/25 "2001-10-04T22:10:25Z")
Maybe someone’ll take notice of me for once… Tell me what I am!! ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/26 "2001-10-04T22:10:25Z")
I’d just like to say that you’re all nerds. Wanting a personalized chemical–yeesh! **pricciar** , you are one of the zaniest people I know. I love that. In honor of your uniqueness, I’m going to do something different for you and tell you your anti-chemical. Lithium carbonate. It’s an anti-psychotic. Avoid it like the Plague, because then we’ll all lose the Pat we love and cherish and want to smear strawberry jelly on. **Nymmy** , you lusty, naughty girl you. You’re molybdenum, because it has B and D in it 🙂 **Pucette** , puce is a dark red color. And -ette makes me think of Smurfette. So, I’ll mix the two and come up with purple. You get to be Cu(NH[sub]3[/sub])[sub]6[/sub][sup]2+[/sup], which is a really awesome purple color. **Bumbazine** , when I worked at the USDA lab, they would tell us that if you’re ever on a tour and someone asks a lot of questions about penicillin, then you should narc on them, because penicillin and LSD are made in similar fashions. So you get to be penicillin, most simple C[sub]9[/sub]H[sub]11[/sub]N[sub]2[/sub]O[sub]4[/sub]SCH[sub]3[/sub]. **Fran** , you wacky British woman you. You can be Aluminium Sulphate. You Brits pronounce Al strangely (what, like al-loo-min-ee-um instead of uh-loo-mih-num), and you can’t even spell sulfate properly! 😉 **screech-owl** , you wanna be unique, eh? You can be Krypton Difluoride, the only compound made with Krypton that I’m aware of. **Dyno** , I admit my nerdity as I confess this (in case it wasn’t totally GLARING yet), but I’ve always associated your name with Dysprosium. Well, that and Denver the Last Dinosaur, but that’s not an element. **Gingy** , it’s fucking COLD up there in Canada. You can be liquid helium. I think it forms in the ballpark of 4 Kelvin (-269 C). More later, must get food and go to meeting… Quixy ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/27 "2001-10-04T22:10:42Z")
I get very tired, so tired I don’ wanna do nothin’. And then I get angry at people & blow up. What kind of chemical am I? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/28 "2001-10-04T22:12:05Z")
Hey! I wanna be a chemical! I like hydrogen. It’s simple. But is that what I am? [sub]The suspension is killing me. And you know, I feel like there’s some sort of bond between the two of us. Or am I diluted?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/29 "2001-10-04T22:15:31Z")
Me too **Quix**! ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/30 "2001-10-04T22:20:33Z")
I don’t want a chemical. I want two! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/31 "2001-10-04T22:20:38Z")
I want one too! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/32 "2001-10-04T22:22:46Z")
eh, I’ll take one. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/33 "2001-10-04T22:23:19Z")
This I gotta see… bring it on, Quix 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/34 "2001-10-04T22:39:51Z")
Quixy mah man, chemicalize me! Please! ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/35 "2001-10-05T00:25:31Z")
OK Quixter…chemical me puhleeeeeeze!!! ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/36 "2001-10-05T00:28:13Z")
ohh! ohh! gimme one! a nice big NAMED one like at the beginning, too! if it’s a good one, it might go in my .sig! [sub]::crosses fingers:: come on, sodium metal! come on, chlorine gas! come to daddy! come to daddy and poison him to death! ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/37 "2001-10-05T02:08:38Z")
Okay. Tell me. Something with titanium, I hope… ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/38 "2001-10-05T02:30:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Krypton Difluoride, the only compound made with Krypton that I’m aware of. KrFl[sub]2[/sub], right? I always thought Krypton was a loner. Cool. What’s is used for/in/against? Or is it one of those “fun things to make in the lab but have no real purpose” chemicals? And thanks! I’m a compound: wheeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/39 "2001-10-05T02:39:35Z")
Can I be a big, bossy chemical? Maybe one that smokes a cigar and and drinks straight scotch. Buck The Diver \<—If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quixotic78-will-define-your-own-personal-chemical/85444/40 "2001-10-05T02:58:45Z")
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