Tears Memes

The escalating madness of salt acquisition! 🧂 What starts as a simple grocery trip spirals into increasingly unhinged chemistry methods. My personal favorite is harvesting tears from failed experiments—been there, collected that! The final panel with Fritz Haber is the chef's kiss of chemical chaos. The progression from "normie" table salt to synthesizing it with cyanide and mustard gas is peak scientist humor. It's the chemical equivalent of using a nuclear reactor to toast your bread when the toaster is right there!

Ever wondered why organic chemistry lab goggles feel like overkill? Turns out those Grignard reagents aren't just violently reactive with water—they've got a personal vendetta against your emotional breakdowns too. These organometallic compounds will absolutely explode if they detect a single tear of frustration from that impossible synthesis you've been attempting for three hours. The real lab safety protocol isn't protecting your eyes; it's protecting your experiment from your inevitable chemistry-induced existential crisis.

The chemical formula C 3 H 6 OS isn't just random letters and numbers—it's the molecular structure of syn-propanethial-S-oxide, the notorious tear-jerking compound released when you cut an onion! The cartoon perfectly captures that moment of scientific hubris when you think you're immune to basic biochemistry, only to be betrayed by your own lachrymatory glands. What happens is that when you slice an onion, you damage its cells, releasing enzymes that convert amino acid sulfoxides into sulfenic acids. These unstable compounds then rearrange to form this volatile gas that diffuses through the air, reaches your eyes, and forms sulfuric acid on your moist eyeball surface. Your body's natural defense? Tears to dilute the irritant. Chemistry: 1, Human confidence: 0.

Oh sweet benzene rings! The progression from cocaine (mild pupil dilation) to beer (slightly red eyes) to ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (full-on sobbing breakdown) is the most accurate chemical reaction I've ever witnessed! 😂 Anyone who's ever stared at a cyclohexane chair conformation at 2AM knows this pain. Drawing those hexagons over and over until your dreams are just carbon chains chasing you through endless reaction mechanisms! The irony? Cocaine and beer are literally organic compounds we're studying while crying about studying them! It's chemical inception! *maniacal scientist laugh*

You think you're tough until H₂S enters the chat! While onions make you tear up with their mild sulfur compounds, hydrogen sulfide is the final boss of eye-watering chemicals. At just 10 parts per million, this rotten egg gas triggers your eyes to water uncontrollably—and at higher concentrations, it can literally shut down your respiratory system faster than you can say "periodic table." Chemistry doesn't care about your bravado, it just wants to watch the world burn (or in this case, cry)! Fun fact: your body produces tiny amounts of H₂S as a signaling molecule, but apparently not enough to build up an immunity to its tear-jerking powers!