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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Impossible structures Memes

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Ethane's Descent Into Molecular Madness

Chemistry Science
1 year ago 32.6K views 0 shares
Ethane's Descent Into Molecular Madness
The meme shows the chemical evolution of ethane into increasingly impossible structures! Regular ethane (C₂H₆) is a normal, happy molecule with its single bond between carbons. Then we have "cycloethane" - which would require bending carbon bonds into an impossibly strained ring. And finally "bicyclo[0.0.0]ethane" which is basically molecular fantasy fiction where the carbons are somehow triple-bonded AND in a ring structure simultaneously. It's like watching ethane descend into molecular madness! Chemistry students everywhere are having structural formula nightmares right now.

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