After some years of trying to get organized, the physics community will celebrate the first Talk Like a Physicist Day on 14 March. It’s the brainchild of physics blogger Jennifer Ouellette, who produces the always useful Cocktail Party Physics.

The physicists have a Talk Like a Physicist Web site, a cool logo, and even an achingly clever date—Π.2008 (3.14.2008).

Chemists are presumably welcome to join the fun. But c’mon, fellow molecularists, can’t we do better than tagging along with physicists? How about our own Talk Like a Chemist Day?

To get you started, here are a few suggestions. Feel free to drop some of your own low humor.

For dinner:

Please pass the NaCl.

I’d like a high concentration of CO2 in my dinner H2O.

For your kids:

Let’s blow up the balloon using Boyle’s Law.

Your room exhibits an unusually high degree of entropy

For your coworkers:

Your idea for a new project has high valence.

That’s a good plan, but the activation energy is quite high.

For your boss:

The kinetics of my last raise was zero order.