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The most scientifically accurate Venn diagram doesn't exi— Oh wait, here it is! Nothing unites the STEM fields quite like their mutual disdain for each other. Physicists mock engineers who can't win Nobel Prizes, mathematicians scoff at both while being utterly incomprehensible to normal humans, and everyone agrees chemists are inferior (except chemists, who are too busy making things explode to notice). The beautiful irony? They all desperately need each other to make actual scientific progress. It's like a dysfunctional academic family where everyone thinks they're the smart one.

The meme features a physics exam question asking "In an atom, the number of electrons is equal to:" with three options. Someone selected "the number of electrons" (a tautology) instead of "the number of protons" (the correct answer). Below is Emperor Kuzco from "The Emperor's New Groove" saying "No, no. He's got a point." It's technically true in the most useless way possible! The number of electrons is equal to the number of electrons—just like saying water is wet. The teacher gave it 1 point because, well, you can't argue with that flawless circular logic. Chemistry teachers everywhere are simultaneously facepalming and reaching for their red pens.

That moment when your lab manager screams about energy costs while you're literally handling compounds that could turn the building into a smoking crater. Nothing says "priorities in science" quite like risking chemical asphyxiation to save a few dollars on the electric bill! Next up: reusing pipette tips to save plastic and mixing hazardous waste with regular trash because waste disposal is "too expensive." Safety third, am I right?

While she's worried about infidelity, he's mentally calculating ionic bonds! The pun is chemistry gold—"No Bromo" is a play on "no homo" but with bromine (Br), a halogen element. Chemists know halogens are notoriously reactive and rarely exist alone in nature, always seeking to form bonds. They're basically the desperate singles of the periodic table! They'll steal electrons from almost anything to achieve a stable octet configuration. Talk about commitment issues solved through electron theft!

Glutamate is the overachiever of biochemistry—simultaneously an amino acid AND a neurotransmitter. It's like finding out your quiet coworker is also a professional DJ on weekends. The meme shows the existential crisis of glutamate's molecular structure as it realizes it has two completely different job descriptions in the body. No wonder it looks stressed; it never gets a day off from either signaling neurons or building proteins. That's what happens when you're too efficient for your own good.

Chemistry teachers everywhere just felt a disturbance in the periodic table! The student's creative "equations" turn chemical symbols into everyday items: Co + 2Fe → Coffee Ba + 2Na → Banana It's the ultimate dad joke of chemistry - technically wrong but linguistically brilliant. The teacher's face says it all: "Did you really just turn cobalt and iron into a beverage? I spent 8 years getting my PhD for THIS?" Meanwhile, the student's smug expression screams "Nobel Prize for Wordplay, please!"