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 try here or if you are after the world famous vegetable wedding anniversary gifts check out this page.

Marriage Certificate - cellulose
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.