Danger Memes

Either way, you're dead. NI₃ (nitrogen triiodide) explodes if you look at it wrong, while IN₃ (iodine azide) detonates if you even think about it. Just another day in the chemistry lab where the difference between a normal Tuesday and your last Tuesday is switching two letters. Grad students call this "spicy floor roulette."

The eternal chemistry lab power dynamic in one glorious meme! That look of sheer terror when your carefully set up electrolysis experiment—which could potentially go boom if mishandled—gets casually disturbed by your professor who has either (a) done this 500 times before or (b) has completely lost all sense of self-preservation after years of lab accidents. Chemistry professors exist in that magical zone between "respect for dangerous reactions" and "I've seen worse explosions in my coffee mug." Meanwhile, undergrads are still at the "please don't let me burn down the building" stage of their scientific journey!