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		<title>Coke Red</title>
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Coke Red (Red 170)
2010
Acrylic on canvas
20&#8221; x 30&#8221;
Red 170 is a scarlet-colored azo pigment, grayer than carmine and bluer than vermillion, loved (if, perhaps, not known) as the dye in Coca-Cola bottlecaps. Just when you thought drinking Coke couldn&#8217;t get any more delightful!


These molecules are rendered as space-filling models, in a natural, low-energy conformation, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=965</link>
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		<title>Catnip</title>
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Catnip (nepetalactone)
12&#8221; x 16&#8221;
Acrylic on canvas
2010
$300




Catnip is a pleasant-smelling, scrubby, unremarkable plant in the mint family, occasionally brewed to make tea, but otherwise uninteresting to humans. But among cats, catnip is it &#8212; the most important of a disparate, mostly unrelated group of plants, including valerian and silver vine, that powerfully attract cats.
In the case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=998</link>
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		<title>Alcohol #2</title>
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Alcohol #2 (ethanol)
8” x 10”
Acrylic and rubbing alcohol on canvas
2010
$100




Lucifer (showing a flask). Behold it here! this little flask
Contains the wonderful quintessence,
The perfect flower and efflorescence,
Of all the knowledge man can ask!
Hold it up thus against the light!
Prince Henry.  How limpid, pure, and crystalline,
How quick, and tremulous, and bright
The little wavelets dance and shine,
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=979</link>
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		<title>Department of Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re re-running this classic from last year, lost in the archives. Birtherism lives.
Like all good Americans, I spent my day thinking about Barack Obama&#8217;s birth certificate. For those of you who would like to play along at home, the rules of the game are as follows: Some say that Obama&#8217;s birth certificate from Hawaii, officially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=969</link>
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		<title>THC #2</title>
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THC #2
18&#8221; x 24&#8221;
Acrylic on canvas
2010
For Becky


These molecules are rendered as space-filling models, in a natural, low-energy conformation, and displayed from an angle that shows off as much of their structure as possible. The atoms are color-coded, with carbon being black, hydrogen white, oxygen red, and nitrogen blue. They are painted in artist-quality acrylics, on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=957</link>
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		<title>Nitroglycerin</title>
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Nitroglycerin
14&#8221; x 18&#8221;
Acrylic on canvas
2010
$400





Nitroglycerin was the first modern explosive. Before it was discovered in 1847 by mixing glycerin with concentrated sulfuric and nitric acid, the best known explosive was gunpowder, a comparatively slow-burning, low energy explosive. When it became available for industrial use, it proved valuable for blasting railroad tunnels, having even more explosive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=941</link>
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		<title>Capsaicin</title>
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Capsaicin
18&#8221; x 24&#8221;
Acrylic on canvas
2010
$600










Capsaicin is the most common and most powerful capsaicinoid, a class of chemicals found in chili peppers. Capsaicinoids cause the painful, exhilarating sensation that accompanies peppers, and chili peppers have variously been bred to elevate their levels of capsaicin, or to eliminate it altogether. Its long alkyl tail makes it highly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=394</link>
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		<title>Idea for a Beer Slogan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Drink to Forget Your Thirst&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=913</link>
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		<title>Wikipedia Sentence of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The younger the lamb is, the smaller the lamb will be.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=910</link>
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		<title>Age of Innocence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking past a construction site today, I saw a bunch of workmen straddling a newly poured concrete sidewalk. They were busy pressing boards into the sidewalk at right angles, and with a little metal blade, making shallow indentations in the concrete to create the illusion that it was made out of separate blocks. In chronological [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderkobulnicky.com/?p=907</link>
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