Chemists Unite Against The Common Enemy

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Chemists Unite Against The Common Enemy

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The eternal struggle between crystal healers and crystallographers, beautifully satirized as a conspiracy theory! This masterpiece of scientific snark parodies how actual scientists feel when crystal enthusiasts claim healing properties while researchers spend years of their lives determining atomic structures through diffraction patterns.

Those complex unit cell diagrams? Just "VOODOO mathematics" according to the meme. And that ridiculous chemical formula K₁₄LaO₁₅₈P₄W₃₄? Try synthesizing that without carbon (or sanity)!

My favorite part is "crystals made of PhD tears" - because nothing captures the essence of crystallography better than crying over diffraction patterns at 3AM wondering why your sample won't crystallize after 8 months of synthesis.

The irony is delicious - real crystallographers would fight anyone claiming neutrons don't exist, yet would absolutely agree with the PhD tears part.

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