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// In the lunch line at the National Science Bowl
Logan: My favorite chemicals are methyl hydrazine and 1,3,5-triazine.
Anon: Methyl hydrazine, CH3N2H3. What's 1,3,5-triazine?
Logan: Three hydrogen cyanides joined in a ring. Or, you could, of course, flip one of them to get 1,2,4-triazine.
Anon: I see. And you could flip another one to get.. oh, wait, that puts you back where you started. Well, my favorite chemical is 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine.
Logan: What's that?
Anon: Caffeine.
Logan: Oh! I see. That is a popular chemical.
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Logan: Y'know, if caffeine were an illegal drug, TJ would be like Columbia.