r/chemistrymemes • u/lit_readit Material Science 🦾 (Chem Spy) • 3d ago

Heavy Metals 🎸 🤘 Heavy elements are woke

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u/British_Imperialism2 3d ago

As an Astrophysicist, I completely agree! In fact, I would go a step further, and say we should reclassify all other elements as 'metals'. It would be so much easier to describe everything through metallic bonding, and we don't even need to worry about pesky things like electron configurations or organic mechanisms.

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u/ScienceIsSexy420 3d ago

I was watching a 60 Symbols video on YouTube, and the astrophysicist showed a picture of a periodic table labeled exactly as you described. It had three elements: Hydrogen, Helium, and Metals.

Being a chemist I instantly paused the video and put my hands to my temples because I had an instant headache. After a moment I calmed myself, and hit play. The astrophysicist says "I only show this because it really annoys chemists"

Yeah bro, mission accomplished 😂😂😂

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u/cpt_futtbucker SLUT - Solvent-Labile Unstable Teratogen 3d ago

Any more than 4 nucleons is a mental illness

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u/taktaga7-0-0 3d ago

I identify as technetium.

Yeah, you missed my ass, but I was fucken sweet!

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u/GroolGobblin0 1d ago

atomic elements are easily defined (by the number of protons they have). "Xeongenders," on the other hand, are not. On the rare occasion where anyone can be bothered to actually list out and define any of these alleged additional genders, it usually reads like they're just deliberately splitting hairs to artificially lengthen the list for it's own sake; this video, for example, lists no fewer than two genders that are literally just different ways of phrasing the concept of being undefined.

I've no clue why someone would describe that as outright mental illness (does a child who watches jurassic park and then pretends to be a velociraptor for a week have mental illness?), but it's still hardly rational.