For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 28, 1997
Transcript:
Teacher: So, what we are saying here, is that a true element's atomic composition has an invariant nuclear charge, - and therefore, cannot be decomposed by ordinary chemical means. Now...who can tell me what an invariant nuclear charge is? Does anyone CARE what an invariant nuclear charge is? I hate trying to teach in the spring. Elizabeth: Z. Boy: Z.
Of course they don’t. Does it matter?