The Stopcock Conspiracy

The first panel shows NNN = No Nut November (rejected), but the second panel reveals NNN = 6.022·10 23 Nut November (approved)! That's Avogadro's number—the number of atoms in one mole of a substance. Chemistry students everywhere are nodding knowingly while calculating just how many nuts that would be. Talk about a mole -titude of nuts! Technically impossible but theoretically hilarious for anyone who's survived basic chemistry class.

Chemistry wordplay at its finest! Formaldehyde is that pungent chemical used to preserve specimens (and nightmares from biology class). The joke brilliantly plays on "formal" vs "casual" and sneaks in a Jekyll/Hyde reference because, let's face it, chemicals have personalities too. Next time you're at a chemistry party (yes, they exist and they're exactly as wild as you imagine), drop this gem and watch as everyone simultaneously groans and updates their periodic table of puns.

Drawing a perfect hexagon for benzene is like trying to achieve nuclear fusion in your kitchen – theoretically possible but practically hilarious. The left shows the pristine, textbook-perfect benzene structures that professors effortlessly sketch during lectures. The right? That's the rest of us, creating what looks like a benzene molecule that survived a particle accelerator accident. And just like our organic chemistry skills, our portrait drawing abilities follow the same tragic trajectory from "professional chemist" to "five-year-old with a crayon." Remember kids, if your hexagons look like potatoes and your portraits look possessed, you're doing organic chemistry exactly right!

This is peak chemistry wordplay! The molecular formula BrO 3 - is "bromate" - a chemical compound containing bromine and oxygen. But it's also the perfect linguistic fusion of "bro" (American slang) and "mate" (British slang) when they collide! The chemical structure literally forms when an American and British dude address each other simultaneously. Chemistry nerds rejoice - finally a compound that captures international bromance at the ionic level!

Forget gender reveals with balloons and cake! The real intellectuals use quantum mechanics and density functional theory! 🤓 On the left, we've got coupled-cluster equations describing "SHE" - because obviously nothing says "feminine" like exponential operators! Meanwhile, "HE" gets the full density functional theory treatment on the right - because boys are all about that electron density, am I right? Dating in physics grad school be like: "Are you a Hartree-Fock approximation? Because I'd like to correlate with you!" *adjusts lab goggles nervously*

Teenage chemistry enthusiasts discovering that tossing sodium into water creates a SPECTACULAR KABOOM! Meanwhile, international treaties are like "please don't weaponize the periodic table." The pure unbridled joy of watching alkali metals dance violently on water is apparently frowned upon by people who hate fun and scientific discovery. Those party-poopers with their "safety regulations" and "not wanting the lab to explode." Psssh! Just because something releases hydrogen gas and enough heat to trigger spontaneous combustion doesn't mean we can't appreciate the beauty of electron transfer reactions! *twirls beaker maniacally*