...well maybe geometry.Tonight, I was working on some chemistry problems. Case walked by me, and one of the molecular structures must have caught his eye: aspirin. He pointed to the ring structure and asked, "Is that an octagon?"
It made me smile.
I told him it was a hexagon because it had six corners.
He ran off before I could start explaining the benzene structure and point to the carboxylic acid group.
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Probably best to start small...
Love it! One of our labs this week is the synthesis of acetaminophen and aspirin.
I'm impressed he knows the word octagon! I'm not sure Heidi does. :)
That is funny, today we were playing with some color and shape flash cards and he asked me if a pentagon was an octagon. I told him no. I started to explain and he flipped the card and told me that the outlined section of the soccer ball (on the card's flip side) was a pentagon. I figured, "Enough said!" He is a smart one. He didn't miss any of the other shapes - including the octagon when we came to it. Love my boy!
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