Chemical rules Memes

Chemistry textbooks vs. real lab experience in one image. The periodic table they don't want you to see. "The 18-electron rule is a lie" hits different after your third failed synthesis. And let's acknowledge the "Atlantis of stability" - that mythical island where stable isotopes supposedly exist but no one's ever actually been there. Physicists playing chemist is basically someone with a theoretical hammer treating every molecule like a quantum nail. Meanwhile, noble gases sitting there with their full valence shells like "I'm good, thanks."