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[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good luck finding the chemistry teacher, though.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As a leftist chemistry teacher, I read it as "having attained union", rather than "not ionized", so YMMV with this heuristic

ETA: (also, yeah, I have excellent job security until all public schools are abolished in the US)

[–] LordTrychon@startrek.website 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In his essay "To Tell a Chemist" (1965), Asimov proposed a simple shibboleth for distinguishing chemists from non-chemists: ask the person to read the word "unionized". Chemists, he noted, will read un-ionized (electrically neutral), while non-chemists will read union-ized (belonging to a trade union).

[–] waz@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Or some will say it’s spelled incorrectly