Some humorous Science misquotes!

• ‘Hard Water’ is another name for ice.
• When you smell odourless gas, it is probably carbon dioxide.
• The Republic of Ireland has to import all its aluminium because this metal is too reactive to be found in the free state.
• Three kinds of blood vessels are archeries, vanes and caterpillars.
• A supersaturated solution is one that can hold more that it can hold.
• A fossil is the remains of an extinct animal – the older it is, the more extinct it is.
• Many women believe that drinking alcohol will have no ill effects on an unborn child but this is a serious misconception.
• The pistle of a flower is its only protection against insects.
• A vacuum is a large empty space where the pope lives.
• Another name for the alimentary canal is the suggestive tract.
• Mushrooms have an umbrella shape because they grow in damp places.
• Sir Isaac Newton’s most famous invention was gravity.
• The end of the Dark Ages came when Edison invented the electric light bulb.