Enough said.

Mine is the one with KY in the pocket, ta.

It says the legs alternate up/down, so there would be three pointing down (the legs) and three pointing up (to hold the vase) - therefore it is a vase holder!

Errm.. the text says that the sticky out bits are alternately skewed above and below the plane of the ring, so there would only be three legs in contact with the ground if you were to rest your unfeasibly small vase on the ring.

It's been produced as a "Prince Albert" for Bill Gates!

Presumably they'll be knocking these out at Elizabeth Duke before we know it ... Now if they could just attach a nano-sovereign the chav's would be all over this shit for their youngens (relatively speaking) ... zygotic bling anyone?

This is much more amusing chemistry paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic0352250

For future reference, it's easier to link to papers using their Digital Object Identifier (DOI) since that will remain, even if the URL changes. The DOI for this gold ring paper is http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200801001

I think you mean cyclohexane, which has chair and boat conformations; benzene is planar.

Elizabeth Duke won't carry these, they're pure gold.

First thing I spotted was the source organisation of the paper - Instituto de Quím (ica).

Giggle.

Mine's the parka with my name sewn in the collar.

It is even funnier when you learn that one of these universities is located in a city which is famed to have a lot of gay people in there. A friend pointed to me that they probably came with the round molecule and asked the colleagues in the other university to get a nice pointy one to fit inside it.

It is almost as fun and distracting as the recent Ronaldo fracas.

Why is this filed under physics? Surely it's chemistry (and stop calling me Shirley).

-Chris

Louis,

Benzene rings are planar (flat) because their electrons can be thought of as having a hybridization pi cloud. Six member saturated carbon rings like cyclohexanes, or nitrogen/carbon heterocyclic rings like RDX (Semtex), have chair and/or boat structures. The boat has both ends pointing up, the chair has one end pointing up with the other end down. The same molecule can alternate between the two structures. This is known as chair-boat hybridization.

Mine's the lab coat with the acid burns down the front.

Small ring obviously for the little woman at home. Bless.

the introduction of "univalent nanoscale wedding accoutrements" into our lifestyles (laughed so hard and loud I upset some colleagues still actually doing work at this time of the week)

To all those who corrected me - thanks for reminding me of the nightmare that was chemistry!

If you stop f**king about with that bunsen burner, maybe you'd learn something about highly inflammable hydrocarbons !! Chemistry is great fun, especially when you can blow something up once in a while (hopefully by design) !!

Mine's the very scorched, full-body, asbestos-kevlar armoured suit, thanks