Oil And Water: The Original Social Distancing

The top image shows a bottle of "Hard to swallow pills," while the bottom reveals the pills contain chemistry truths that shatter common oversimplifications. Sodium chloride (NaCl) isn't perfectly ionic - it's actually about 80% ionic with some covalent character. And PV=NRT (the ideal gas law) is just an approximation that falls apart under high pressure or low temperature conditions. Chemistry professors love presenting these simplified models before destroying your confidence with "but actually..." revelations later in your education. The real pill to swallow is that nearly everything in introductory chemistry is a convenient lie!

Little Timmy's first existential chemistry crisis! Of course wood isn't on the periodic table - it's a complex mixture of cellulose, lignin, and other organic compounds made from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. But try telling that to an 8-year-old who's convinced the elements should include "stuff I can see in my backyard." The archives aren't incomplete, kiddo - your understanding of materials science is just beginning! Next up: the devastating realization that peanut butter isn't an element either.

Oh the sacred trinity of taboo questions! While society worries about age and salary, chemistry TAs are over here playing fast and loose with safety protocols like they're optional side quests in a video game. Those fumehoods? Decorative! Safety goggles? Fashion accessories! That ammonia belongs wherever your heart desires, darling! The true lab rebel doesn't read SDS sheets—they use them as coffee coasters. Safety inspectors HATE this one weird trick: pretending lab protocols are just strongly worded suggestions!

The EVOLUTION OF ATOMIC THEORY: A DEADLY LINEUP! Thomson's plum pudding model sits there smugly like "yeah, I've got electrons floating in positive goo, what about it?" Meanwhile, Rutherford's model is taking aim with its orbiting electrons, ready to blow holes in Thomson's theory. Bohr's model is backing up Rutherford with those fancy quantized orbits. But WAIT—hiding in the shadows is quantum mechanics with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, ready to absolutely DEMOLISH everyone's neat little orbits with "Sorry folks, you can't know position AND momentum simultaneously!" It's basically the atomic theory family reunion where each generation wants to murder its predecessors! 🔬⚛️

The eternal truth of scientific textbook lifespans! Physics books become doorstops after a few paradigm shifts (sorry Newton), and chemistry texts turn into historical fiction once we discover new elements or particles. But mathematics? Those ancient theorems from thousands of years ago still crush it in modern classrooms. Pythagoras would totally high-five a calculus student today. The Pythagorean theorem hasn't needed a software update since 500 BCE, while physics and chemistry are basically subscription services with mandatory upgrades. Mathematical truth is the cockroach of academia - utterly indestructible!

The medieval courtesy extends to molecular compounds! First we bow to lords and ladies, then naturally to CH₃CH₂OH. Because nothing says "I respect you" like acknowledging the chemical structure that's gotten humanity through awkward social gatherings since fermentation was discovered. The molecule even dressed up formally with its hydroxyl group! Next panel: M'Glucose with its fancy ring structure.