Come For The Flowers, Stay For The Existential Crisis

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Come For The Flowers, Stay For The Existential Crisis

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Welcome to the wild world of inorganic chemistry, where electron orbitals are marketed as "flowers" and molecular geometry as "ice cream"! 🍦

This is basically every inorganic chemistry professor trying to lure unsuspecting students with pretty visuals while secretly planning to bombard them with incomprehensible energy diagrams that even THEY don't understand!

Those d-orbital "flowers" are actually electron probability distributions that will haunt your dreams, and that "ice cream cone" is a molecular orbital with a bond angle that will be on your exam worth 40% of your grade. SURPRISE!

And that final diagram? Nobody knows what it is! That's the beauty of inorganic chem—half the time we're just nodding along pretending we understand those Tanabe-Sugano diagrams while internally screaming!

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