A Chemistry Joke: What Is A Mineral?

A Chemistry Joke: What Is A Mineral?Chemicals make the world go round; so too do jokes; so how about a chemistry joke? The world could certainly use more people that love to laugh and let their problems are known in jokes.'I was the high school chemistry teacher and I was teaching a small class. We were starting to teach a new class and I was flipping through a textbook and seeing that someone had asked what a 'mineral' was and the answer on the quiz sheet was, 'A mineral is any substance that is considered a mineral.' So there you have it, a mineral is any substance that is considered a mineral!Now I'd like to see the students walk out of class and not one of them asking, 'What is a mineral? ' I'll be your teacher for the next two years!' 'And it would make much more sense, wouldn't it?' You can bet that in my class the students were constantly trying to figure out what a mineral was!In chemistry you are required to study the structure of the element, but I had to teach what a miner al was. I didn't want my students to get hung up on the theory, so I made sure that they understood the word mineral and its meaning.To make this chemistry joke a little more fun, I set the students up with a chemistry quiz. The students had to come up with the name of a chemical element and answer the question, 'What is an element?' The more the kids were able to do the more excited they were when I finally called on them to give their answers!This is an example of a simple joke and a great way to get a little bit of fun for a fun chemistry teacher's job. I hope you will please consider this for any chemistry joke that you would like to use. That is a chemistry jokein a nutshell.So please consider this as a humorous reference when you are making a joke. Whether you are making a good science joke or just a funny story, remember the concept of using humor in chemistry.