List of Wedding Anniversary Gifts
The chymical wedding list of unusual and unsavoury anniversary gifts from the twisted mind of ubergeek and science writer David Bradley.If you're looking for a list of traditional wedding anniversary gifts try here.

First -
Cellulose - the stuff of marriage certificates
Second - Nylon - spicing things up in the bedroom after the honeymoon
period is over

Eighth - Zeolite - more and more laundry powder as the kids get older
Tenth - Nonoxynol-9 - snip, snip, no need for these
any more

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

Fourteenth - pyrolytic carbon - first heart attack too soon
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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
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Forty-Fifth - Silicone gel - probably a bit late for that look

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 and if you want to test your compatibility and grow deeper in love then take a look at the couple compatibility test at http://scibase.couples.hop.clickbank.net














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