Tier list Memes

Just a chemist ranking solvents like they're video game characters. Notice how acetone and hexane made it to S-tier while benzene is down in F for "forbidden unless you want cancer." The creator clearly has a toxic relationship with toluene, keeping it in A-tier despite its headache-inducing fumes. And poor carbon tetrachloride is in F-tier jail with benzene because apparently, destroying your liver isn't "lab-friendly." This is basically what happens when you let a grad student rank chemicals based on how many times they've saved their experiments.

Chemists ranking solvents is like people arguing about pizza toppings, but with more hazardous materials involved. This tier list reveals the secret hierarchy that exists in every lab! The S-tier features the lab rockstars: dichloromethane (because who doesn't love a solvent that might be carcinogenic but dissolves EVERYTHING?), acetone (the lab's makeup remover), and THF (tetrahydrofuran, for when you want your reaction to work AND explode if you're not careful). Meanwhile, water got banished to F-tier because apparently being the "universal solvent" and "essential for life" isn't impressive enough for chemistry snobs. The creator of this list probably still has PTSD from that time water ruined their air-sensitive reaction. The best part? The "less biased" in the title suggests there was an EVEN MORE biased version. Imagine being so passionate about solvents that you need multiple drafts to tone down your dichloromethane fanaticism!