chemistry
Original: chemistry on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman in a white lab coat, safety goggles, and a pink shirt stands at a table holding and reading from a piece of paper. On the table in front of her are a shallow tray and two small beakers/cups.
Woman (reading from paper): "BY ADDING WATER TO AN EQUAL MASS OF AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF H2O, YOU CAUSE THE WATER TO DOUBLE IN VOLUME!"
Caption (below panel): At last, chemistry sets are perfectly safe.
Votey:
Close-up of a child's face looking down with wide, alarmed eyes.
Child: "I COULD DROWN IN THIS!"
A woman in a white lab coat, safety goggles, and a pink shirt stands at a table holding and reading from a piece of paper. On the table in front of her are a shallow tray and two small beakers/cups.
Woman (reading from paper): "BY ADDING WATER TO AN EQUAL MASS OF AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF H2O, YOU CAUSE THE WATER TO DOUBLE IN VOLUME!"
Caption (below panel): At last, chemistry sets are perfectly safe.
Votey:
Close-up of a child's face looking down with wide, alarmed eyes.
Child: "I COULD DROWN IN THIS!"
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: A woman in a white lab coat, safety goggles, and a pink shirt stands at a table, reading aloud from a sheet of paper. On the table sit a shallow tray and two small beakers. She reads, "By adding water to an equal mass of aqueous solution of H2O, you cause the water to double in volume!" — a deliberately mundane, harmless "experiment" (just adding water to water). A caption below reads, "At last, chemistry sets are perfectly safe." Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of a child's face, eyes wide with alarm, declaring, "I could drown in this!" — the joke being that even this trivially safe experiment can be made to sound dangerous.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.