An Important Reminder: Everything Is Chemicals

A recipe for “non-chemical weed killer” is making its way around the Internet and real world. It even made its way to my refrigerator somehow. Being the science-minded person I am, I fixed it.

Chemicals aren’t scary. You can’t make a chemical-free weed killer, because you can’t make a chemical-free anything. Everything is chemicals. Everything.

Previously in

• How a chemistry joke got one high school in trouble at graduation
• Here’s the winner of the 2013 Dance your PhD competition in Chemistry
• We need chemistry inspired glassware, but we want it so baaaaad

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Glen Tickle

Glen is a comedian, writer, husband, and father. He won his third-grade science fair and is a former preschool science teacher, which is a real job.

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