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There's Two Types Of Chemists

There's Two Types Of Chemists
The duality of chemists captured in their natural habitat! On top, we have the meticulous professional with chlorine beautifully preserved in a museum-quality acrylic display—precise pressure, controlled environment, probably costs more than my student loans. Below, we've got the chaotic "I'll figure it out" chemist who's basically keeping deadly gas in what appears to be a recycled Dasani bottle. The top one publishes in Nature ; the bottom one has a story that starts with "so I almost died yesterday..." The 7.4 bar pressure detail in the top image is just *chef's kiss*—that's how you know the person has never had to MacGyver lab equipment using office supplies and duct tape.

It's Just Solving An Equation, How Hard Can It Be...?

It's Just Solving An Equation, How Hard Can It Be...?
The duality of scientific disciplines captured in one perfect image! Chemists casually mention "I'm trying to work on whether water will blow up" with that confident smile, treating potential explosions as just another Tuesday. Meanwhile, mathematicians are having an existential crisis over the same problem, descending into madness trying to model fluid dynamics with partial differential equations that make the Navier-Stokes equations look like kindergarten math. The chemist just needs safety goggles and a blast shield, but the mathematician needs therapy and possibly an exorcism for those haunting eigenvalues. Welcome to interdisciplinary collaboration!