if you eat poppy seeds, you can consume enough morphine to appear on a blood test
You never have amino acids in your body, they exist as ammonium carboxylates.
benz[a]pyrene which exists in small amounts in hamburgers and hot dogs, after ingesting, the body attempts to rid itself of the foreign substance by converting it into diol epoxide so it can be excreted, except that it reacts with and binds to DNA and alters it leading to mutations or cancer.
acetaminophen (tylenol) is called that for a reason. It's chemical structure contains an acetyl, amine, and a phenol. Thus acetaminophen. And all these years, I thought it was just because they couldn't think of anything better.
A potato that has turned green because of exposure to sunlight, before it is eaten, must be peeled to remove all of the green chlorophyll so that the poisonous alkaloid solanine is removed. It doesn't cook off.
Another name for 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione is caffiene.
Toulene and HNO3 with an H2SO4 catalyst makes TNT.
A permanent wave results when disulfide bridges are formed between -SH groups in hair protein molecules.
chewing the bark of a willow tree will relieve pain. It has the same active ingredient as asprin.
Just in case you were wondering...
