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Oh yeah, I suppose I didn't really asssociate that with what I learnt in GCSE science.

I don't really know what to say

It would be too easy to criticise the national curriculum for failing to show the links between subjects more clearly....

Not to mention it's probably my own fault for failing to make such an obvious connection myself. Sometimes I can be incredibly dense

I don't know where I heard it, but I heard this really great joke
The trouble is, is that it was perfectly serious

statement issued by some educational institution along the lines of reducing nitrogen emmission because "nitrogen makes up 70% of the pollution in the atmosphere!"

That is quite worrying.

I like the Dihydrogen Monoxide joke that Anonymouse has in her "Rounds" entries. It's in a similar vein

link please?

I wasn't sure if you'd seen it and I'm trying to get out of the habit of unnecessarily spamming fora

Here we go though:

http://www.h2g2.com/A254710

that's a good one, thanks

Apparently some kid in the US actually did a research project on the topic asking his classmates whether they should ban Dihydrogen Monoxide. They came back with about 70% saying yes or something silly. He won a prize for it.

LOL

I think it was a group of young teenagers too, only about 10% actually recognised it as water

hmmmm... wouldn't be surprised