he also misspelled phosphorus as well. who's counting?

He might not want him to wear one so he can feltch it out before they snowball.

Don't **** with a guy that does chemical formulations every day. Both spellings are correct. :D

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depends: do they have to emit elemental phosphorus (charge zero), or a hybridized phosphorus that's part of a compund? :p

NERD FIGHT!

J/K, your guys' knowledge is very impressive.

Glow sticks mating on a Sham-WOW

Pretty cool. Haven't seen that myself. Not usually at the beach at dusk though.

WTF is a compund? ;)

I'm all out of stories today, this is being outsourced to Mr. Fax

Drugs in the water...

I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan and my radar had jammed, and my homing signal was gone... because somebody in Japan was actually using the same frequency. And so it was - it was leading me away from where I was supposed to be. And I'm lookin' down at a big, black ocean, so I flip on my map light, and then suddenly: zap. Everything shorts out right there in my cockpit. All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone. And I can't even tell now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching in the ocean. And I, I look down there, and then in the darkness there's this uh, there's this green trail. It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. And it was the algae, right? It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was - it was - it was leading me home. You know? If my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd ever been able to see that. So uh, you, uh, never know... what... what events are to transpire to get you home.

Seen it at sea when I was in the Navy.

it's a compound that's been through a conundrum.

Another interesting protist's visual (and odorous) phenomenon, watermelon snow.
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