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More cursed chemistry! Check out this spicy boi:

This is chlorine trifluoride, one of the most reactive, corrosive substances known. This stuff will light asbestos on fire, as well as sand, glass, many metals, and oh, it will also ignite water. Basically if you start a fire with this stuff, your only option is to let it burn out, because anything you put on it will just burn up itself (though if it’s in an enclosed space you can flood the space with like argon or whatever). Apparently a spill of almost a ton of this stuff burned its way through a foot of concrete and 3 feet of gravel before it stopped.

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Cursed chemistry fact! Oxygen gas does not normally have a double bond.

In the ground state (aka its lowest and most stable energy level), oxygen gas is what’s known as triplet oxygen. It has one regular bond and two half-formed bonds. These half-formed bonds are also considered radicals, meaning oxygen is most stable when it has two radicals (even though radicals are normally extremely reactive). Oxygen gas is actually weakly attracted to magnets because of its diradical.

When you raise oxygen’s energy level, it actually does have a regular double bond and things seem to make sense

#chemistry #cursed chemistry #chemistry is bullshit #I mean this actually makes sense when you understand #but also it feels so bullshit

After chemists first made gold-xenon bonds and realized they could make practically anything bond to anything by abusing the atoms enough.

Poor berylliums getting all their electrons stolen

#cursed chemistry #mad science #science #chemistry #organic chemistry #Diberyllocene #tetraxenonogold (II)

cycloethane, also known as ethene

#hydrocarbon #chemistry #organic chemistry #cursed chemistry #molecules #nomenclature

I’ve done it! I’ve designed such an incredibly cursed molecule that MolView doesn’t even assign it a systematic IUPAC name. Behold:

The image doesn’t even show up right in the post editor lol. This thing would have such unbelievably ridiculous angle strain that if a molecule of it was ever assembled, it would almost certainly degrade instantly. Possibly violently.

#chemistry #cursed chemistry #also molview same idk how to name this abomination

Meet the Chemiballs; the Noble Noble Gases

The noble gases were all (mostly) discovered by a Scottish man named Sir William Ramsay (Though, back in his day, it was more common to call them “rare gases”). He made the convention of ending all their names with -on, so you always know when something is a noble gas. (Unless it’s helium which is a noble gas but follows the metal naming convention, [or iron which ends in -on but is a metal. {Also, scientists seem to really like giving things -on names, like prion, codon, electron, etc. I will admit, it does sound cool. }]) So it’s not a perfect system.

The name “noble gasses” is a bit of an early 1900s joke. See, the noble gasses are too lazy to do anything and don’t like bonding with lesser peasant elements. The nobility is also lazy and don’t like associating with peasants. Of course, we live in an enlightened post-WWI world and no longer recognize barbaric concepts such as hieratical rule and rigid class structures. Also, the Queen is dead. But this is basically the equivalent of naming them “trust fund gasses”. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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On Cursed Chemistry

I know this probably isn’t how Six Eyes work at all, but I was thinking about how it might work. Just from the periphery (no research AT ALL), I’ve heard that Gojo can a) see cursed energy and b) molecules. So I was thinking on how to combine that. First it got me to think about what cursed spirits are made of — negative emotions. And they form via a collection of nonsorcers’ cursed energy (which are excreted in small doses). Which made me think, hey what if the cursed energy they’re excreting are like molecules (bc they’re small) but just emotions instead of like… matter. Which then got me thinking about cursed chemistry and 2 big concepts: composition and bonds. Composition being that the big, general emotions are the atoms. Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Pain, etc., forming into specific molecules, like Pain of Burning and Fear of Natural Disasters, that then form into one big entity of Being Burned Alive via Volcano (aka Jogo). Each curse and its energy is super specific, because in my head, the molecules are usually difficult to separate unless someone dies. Which, speaking of separating molecules, my second point of cursed chemistry is bonds. I’m my very meager understandings of chemistry, there are weak bonds between similars (covalent) and strong bonds between opposites (ionic) — and I think these types of bonds would help categorize the grades of curses. So all grade fours are made up of similar, nonreactive negative emotions “molecules” which is why they’re so easy to exorcise. Meanwhile higher grades would be made up of mostly ionic bonds so they’re harder to exorcise. I feel it’s also important to mention that higher grades being made up of more varied materials, also makes them capable of cursed techniques. For example, Toji’s worm curse is probably 4th grade, made mostly of disgust, however Mahito (special grade) is primarily made up of hatred, but also fear, insecurity, alienation, humiliation, jealousy, and boredom. Which is also why every sorcerer’s cursed technique is unique to them (and sometimes hereditary), everyone has a unique combination of “molecules”. But yeah, I think it’s fun that Gojo can see all that, knows all that (bc he’s a nerd), but hasn’t explained it at all, because he’s a horrible teacher.