Linguistic humor, Blowing things up

Students from a local high school were visiting a college campus to conduct chemistry experiments. When the group was asked what they had been up to that morning, one of the students replied, "We made nylon." When further asked whether they also used their chemistry skills to blow things up, the student recoiled, horrified, "No". A fellow student set the record straight, though. "We blow up balloons," she said.