List of Chymical Wedding Anniversary Gifts

The chymical wedding anniversary list is no ordinary list of presents one might buy for the (un)happy couple to celebrate or denigrate their joining together in (un)holy matrimony. Why would it be? This is Sciencebase after all, an uber geek site for hypernerds, scifooists and everyone who ever dissected a frog, meddled with firefox, built their own chemistry kit or dismantled their grandfather's precious watch long after his death (ahem). Here you will find some of the more unusual and perhaps unsavoury wedding anniversary gifts from the (un)twisted mind of ubergeek science writer David Bradley.

If you're looking for a list of traditional wedding anniversary gifts and custom anniversary gifts try here, if you are after the world famous vegetable wedding anniversary gifts check out this page.

First - Cellulose - the stuff of marriage certificates
 

Second - Nylon - spicing things up in the bedroom after the honeymoon period is over

Third - DNA - multiplication that's the name of the game  

Fourth - PVC - keeping the garden tidy  

Fifth - Polystyrene - no time for romantic meals out  

Sixth - Tungsten carbide - the house needs fixing  

Seventh - Rockwool - get that loft insulated  

Eighth - Zeolite - more and more laundry powder as the kids get older  

Ninth - Alum - Junior started shaving  

Tenth - Nonoxynol-9 - snip, snip, no need for these any more  

Eleventh - Titanium - a golf widower already?

Twelfth - Kevlar - use protection if you're looking for a good time

Thirteenth - beta-amyloid - early signs of a failing mind?

Fourteenth - pyrolytic carbon - first heart attack too soon  

Fifteenth - Silicon - another new PC for the kids  

Twentieth - Qinghaosu or artemisinin - an antimalarial drug

Twenty-Fifth - Formaldehyde - there's even time for some culture

Thirtieth - Cobalt chloride - grow a crystal garden together  

Thirty-Fifth - Calcium - keep taking the tablets when osteoporosis rears its ugly head  

Fortieth - Nd:YAG - a little lasering around the eyes?  

Forty-Fifth - Silicone gel - probably a bit late for that look  

Fiftieth - Rhodium - new catalytic converter?  

Fifty-fifth - poly(p-phenylene vinylene) - display technology for the final countdown - conducting polymers are cheaper to run and flexible  

Sixtieth - Buckminsterfullerene - more beautiful than diamond by far but the exact same element in a different allotropic form

If you're looking for a list of traditional wedding anniversary gifts try here.