Atomic number Memes

The ultimate chemistry hack that would make your high school teacher have a breakdown! This meme hilariously suggests transmuting mercury into gold by simply removing one proton per atom. In reality, this is exactly what nuclear transmutation is - changing one element into another by altering the number of protons. Mercury (atomic number 80) would indeed become gold (atomic number 79) if you could remove exactly one proton from each atom. The price difference (€100/kg vs €35,000/kg) would net you a tidy 350x profit! Just minor details like needing a particle accelerator, dealing with radioactive decay, and breaking several laws of physics standing in your way. Medieval alchemists spent centuries trying to turn lead into gold, but this meme suggests doing it with plastic tweezers and a casual disregard for the laws of thermodynamics. The perfect get-rich-quick scheme... if you ignore literally everything about nuclear physics!

The periodic table pickup line strikes again! This chemistry pun is absolutely elemental . Sodium (Na) has exactly 11 protons in its nucleus, which defines it as element #11 on the periodic table. So this dapper lab assistant is essentially dropping the smoothest chemistry pickup line: "You're Na Fine" → "You're So-dium Fine." The dog's formal tie really sells the delivery. Chemistry nerds everywhere are simultaneously groaning and forwarding this to their crush in the lab next door.