The Acid Attack: A Carbon's Worst Nightmare

The Acid Attack: A Carbon's Worst Nightmare
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Chemistry drama at its finest! Watch as Sandy the Strong Acid bullies a hydroxyl group into giving up its proton, leaving behind a terrified carbon atom that's suddenly more unstable than my grad school career. The resulting carbocation is just sitting there like "What the heck just happened to my electron balance?!" Meanwhile, water forms as the innocent bystander that always seems to emerge from these molecular domestic disputes. It's basically the chemical version of "and then everything changed when the acid nation attacked."

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