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| spirifer |
A thread on the boards gave me a real blast from the past in remembering a friend's mnemonic for the Mohs hardness scale for minerals:
The (Talc)
Girl (Gypsum)
Called (Calcite)
Fiona (Fluorite)
A (Apatite)
Fat (Feldspar)
Queen (Quartz)
Tried (Topaz)
Cooking (Corundum)
Dogshit (Diamond)
So, after twenty-odd years, that is something I can still reel off the top of my head. Another is the physics equation n lambda = 2d sin theta = "non-listeners go to the sign theatre".
Amazing how much useless knowledge knocks around in one's noddle...
| 20 May 09, 10:35 AM wonderer UK, 5 yrs  |
So do you kow what this sentence represents then? "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after two heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics" Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/226772/ | ||
| 20 May 09, 10:57 AM syndeetoo UK(WC), 6 yrs |
oh pi-lease!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's be original and odd, (like Spirifer)- I'm thinking TCA cycle Collared Central Intelligence Agent Spoke Slander For Money. C-Citrate synthatase C- Cis -aconitase I- Isocitrate dehydrogenase A-Alpha ketogluturate S-Succinyl CoA thiokinase S-Succinase F- Fumarase M-Malate Dehydrogenase These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, Edited 20 May 09, 11:07 AM by syndeetoo | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:08 AM cinder UK(CR), 7 yrs |
Silly Old Hitler Caused Awful Headaches To Our Army? N x | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:10 AM cinder UK(CR), 7 yrs |
Ah remembered another! Firsts Outers Inners Lasts / FOIL? N x | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:10 AM Topman1 UK(SW), 8 yrs |
And why would you need a mnemonic for something so well known? (Me being a smart arse!) 11 plus exam question - What is the next in this sequence: OTTFFSSE ? | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:12 AM syndeetoo UK(WC), 6 yrs |
ntet These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:14 AM syndeetoo UK(WC), 6 yrs |
like the maths ones- I give TERRY translation enlargement reflection, rotation, why are we doing this? These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:14 AM Lounge_Lizard 5 yrs |
Sin= o/h Cos= a/h Tan= o/a
(Trigonometry was never my strongpoint!) Oh...'Winged Frauline Lands Askew'...?
Veterans demanding proper recognition Edited 20 May 09, 11:16 AM by Lounge_Lizard | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:16 AM syndeetoo UK(WC), 6 yrs |
You mean to say you never hask yersel How I wish I could enumerate Pi easily, since all these horrible mnemonics prevent recalling any of pi's sequence more simply? These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, | ||
| 20 May 09, 11:16 AM cinder UK(CR), 7 yrs |
Nor mine - got FOIL yet? N x |
