Can I Lick It? The Forbidden Taste Test

This is peak chemistry wordplay! The person asks if eating 1kg of nachos would make them 1% nacho (by weight), but the brilliant response points out that humans are already made of Sodium (Na), Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H), and Oxygen (O) - which spells NaCHO! So technically, we're all 100% nacho already! It's elemental humor that would make Mendeleev snort his periodic table in delight. Who needs identity crises when you can have delicious chemical composition revelations?

The ultimate taboo questions chart! Women hide their age, men hide their salary, but chemical engineers? They break into cold sweats when asked about fugacity. For the uninitiated, fugacity is that nightmare thermodynamic property in physical chemistry that makes students question their life choices. It's like pressure... but with extra mathematical torture sprinkled on top. Chemistry students worldwide have collective PTSD from trying to calculate it during exams while their professors smiled sadistically in the corner.

Ever notice how chemists casually chat with compounds that would send the rest of us to the emergency room? That's azidotetrazole, possibly the most sensitive explosive known to chemistry. Touch it wrong? BOOM. Breathe on it? BOOM. Look at it sideways? BOOM. The compound is so unstable that chemists joke it could detonate if you even think about measuring its sensitivity. Yet here's our cartoon buddy having a friendly conversation with certain death, like it's just another Tuesday in the lab. Chemistry's version of playing with fire—except this fire plays back.

The structural rebel of the protein world has been spotted! While most amino acids follow the standard template with their basic amine group, proline said "nah, I'm gonna be different" and formed a ring structure. It's the biochemical equivalent of that one friend who refuses to follow the dress code at formal events. Proline literally bends protein chains into submission, creating kinks that other amino acids could only dream of. The molecular bad boy that makes biochemists simultaneously curse and marvel at nature's creativity.

English language strikes again with its redundant terminology. The lexicographer who decided "flammable" and "inflammable" should mean the exact same thing probably sits in their office cackling while watching chemistry students set things on fire trying to figure out which one burns. For the record, both terms indicate something can catch fire easily - the "in-" prefix doesn't negate like in "invisible," it intensifies like in "infamous." Linguistic chaos at its finest.

The perfect chemistry burn doesn't exi— 🔥 This meme is playing on the irony that hydrophobic compounds literally FEAR water! These molecules run away from water faster than I run from social interactions. The bottom panel shows Davy Jones asking "You afraid to get wet?" which is basically what water molecules would say to oil if they could trash talk. It's chemistry's version of a playground taunt! The ultimate science dad joke that would make your lab partner groan and secretly chuckle.