They devil incarnate in the form of extremely finely ground sand used to purify crap in organic chemistry labs. Silica gel is bad for your lungs and gives you silicosis whatever the fuck that means, and it also results in doing columns, which are basically hell and will eat hours of your life that will never ever come back.
I have topurify my shit with chromotography with silica gel again. FML.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)