Chemistry; Tuesday, Period One [ 03/29 ].
"Alright, kiddies." Kūkaku seemed in a relatively pleasant...or at least not an acerbic mood today...which was a hopefully a good sign; she looked ready for a lecture, though, with two diagrams already up on the board, and each lab station had a model stomach with one side encased in a clear protective material, as well as several unopened boxes and little glass vials and jars.
"Today, we're takin' a turn down the road of chemistry that intersects with anatomy, as we'll be doing for the next few weeks, and today we're startin' with the stomach. Say what you want about the brain, but most people are really gonna be driven by either their stomachs or their crotch. An' most people," this, of course, was said since it not only excluded herself and probably all three of her assistants for the class, "have natural chemical functions of the stomach that digest the food you eat to turn it into energy so you can go on living and stuff. Your stomach? Highly acidic, maintained by the secretion of hydrochloric acid, and use plenty to say about the chemicals of the stomach, and who wouldn't love talking in graphic scientific detail about how chemicals cause gastric ulcers, gastritis, and Linitis plastica? She spoke of these diseases of the stomach with the zeal of someone who, being dead, will never have to deal with them ever again.
"So," she said, whipping back to the class with a grin when the lecture was finished, "we're just gonna play around a bit and have some fun doing things to fake stomachs that I hope you'll never do to your own. The boxes hold a variety of food and drink items; the vials and jars come with instructions on how to create the acids that exist in the human stomach. Make the chemical compounds, put them into your models, and then introduce the factor of food to see what happens once that food gets down there. Don't forget to make the mucus for the stomach linin' first, or else your gonna burn a nice hole through your stomach and that's not gonna be any fun.
"To build on last week's lecture, too, there's some antacids to throw in there on occasion to get an idea of how throwin' in a base among all that acid in your stomach helps neutralize thing."
"Hope none of you had a big breakfast! Any questions before we get started?"
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"Today, we're takin' a turn down the road of chemistry that intersects with anatomy, as we'll be doing for the next few weeks, and today we're startin' with the stomach. Say what you want about the brain, but most people are really gonna be driven by either their stomachs or their crotch. An' most people," this, of course, was said since it not only excluded herself and probably all three of her assistants for the class, "have natural chemical functions of the stomach that digest the food you eat to turn it into energy so you can go on living and stuff. Your stomach? Highly acidic, maintained by the secretion of hydrochloric acid, and use plenty to say about the chemicals of the stomach, and who wouldn't love talking in graphic scientific detail about how chemicals cause gastric ulcers, gastritis, and Linitis plastica? She spoke of these diseases of the stomach with the zeal of someone who, being dead, will never have to deal with them ever again.
"So," she said, whipping back to the class with a grin when the lecture was finished, "we're just gonna play around a bit and have some fun doing things to fake stomachs that I hope you'll never do to your own. The boxes hold a variety of food and drink items; the vials and jars come with instructions on how to create the acids that exist in the human stomach. Make the chemical compounds, put them into your models, and then introduce the factor of food to see what happens once that food gets down there. Don't forget to make the mucus for the stomach linin' first, or else your gonna burn a nice hole through your stomach and that's not gonna be any fun.
"To build on last week's lecture, too, there's some antacids to throw in there on occasion to get an idea of how throwin' in a base among all that acid in your stomach helps neutralize thing."
"Hope none of you had a big breakfast! Any questions before we get started?"
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