When reading scientific papers, listening to scientific reports and even looking through usual newspapers and magazines, we sometimes find different funny things. Here they are.

Real Chemistry

The same bands were later observed in the gase phase by Evans, using the technique of intensification by added oxygen. Evans boldly put 50 atm of ethylene in a cell with 25 atm of oxygen. The apparatus subsequently blew up, but luckily not before he had obtained spectra shown in Figure 8.

(This was a real experiment description in a scientific journal.)