The devastating moment when you realize your entire chemistry education was built on exceptions! That "super important" octet rule? Yeah, it applies to exactly three elements: Carbon (with an asterisk because it breaks rules anyway), Fluorine, and Neon. That's it. That's the whole table. The rest of the periodic table is just vibing, doing its own electron thing. Chemistry teachers conveniently forget to mention this while drilling the rule into your brain for years. It's like learning all the grammar rules in English only to discover most words are irregular anyway!
The Octet Rule's Empty Promises

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