Comments on: All Tattoos Are Two-Dimensional http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/03/all-tattoos-are-two-dimensional/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:02:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Unce Al http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/03/all-tattoos-are-two-dimensional/comment-page-1/#comment-12543 Unce Al Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:51:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/03/all-tattoos-are-two-dimensional/#comment-12543 There are about 36 million chemical substances catalogued by Chemical Abstracts Services to date. Name one organic chemical with a Schlegel diagram possessing overlapping lines. The whole of organic chemistry - from methane to cubane to the most horrific natural products - stretches out exactly flat. It doesn't have to be that way, http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/chiral2.gif http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/chiral3.gif There are about 36 million chemical substances catalogued by Chemical Abstracts Services to date. Name one organic chemical with a Schlegel diagram possessing overlapping lines. The whole of organic chemistry – from methane to cubane to the most horrific natural products – stretches out exactly flat. It doesn’t have to be that way,

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