A colleague found in his desk a chart of salts and their respective solubilities for controlling humidities. It was dated 4/8/58, but one of the fortunate things about science is that, while it may be built upon and further revealed, the basic numbers won’t change. So this nearly 50-year old document can still be helpful to us in our jobs today (you’d be surprised the number of times we need those humidity chambers).
Upon hearing this, another coworker commented the quote at the top of this post. Which prompted me to bring up the chemistry videos that we watched in high school, but that I also heard from a next-door classroom in college. I couldn’t remember the name of the video series, but did remember the host, Roald Hoffman.
Thanks to the Internets, it was a quick run to Wikipedia to learn a little about Roald, himself (a Nobel Prize Winning Chemist) and one more click to the theme song that reminds me of 5th-hour Chem I with Mr. Berry.