“It is exactly the point. Mr. Filmore claimed that a solid has a fixed shape and a liquid takes the shape of its container. That’s true for a brick. It is not true for sodium, which is a solid but can be cut with a butter knife. And it is certainly not true for pitch—a solid that flows so slowly it takes a decade to form a single drop.” She placed the pie on his desk. “Madeline was correcting a category error. You punished her for accuracy.”
“Next time,” she said, “you correct him politely . Then you bring a pie.” lecciones de quimica bonnie garmus
Not a consolation pie. A demonstration pie. A rhubarb and sodium citrate pie, with a lattice crust woven so tightly it looked like a molecular diagram. “It is exactly the point