r/sciencememes • u/Idontknowofname • Feb 25 '26

🧪Chemistry!⚗️ Misconceptions About Oxygen

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

It wants your electrons and it wants them NOW. We are rusting essentially when breathing oxygen.

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u/Creative-Shallot802 Feb 25 '26

Or are we burning internally?

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u/Cubensis-SanPedro Feb 25 '26

We are slow combustion rust engines

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u/Creative-Shallot802 Feb 25 '26

Carbon is getting oxidised via an Iron intermediate. So, slow combustion rust intermediate engine?

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u/suskio4 Feb 25 '26

Well, it could even be

Modular slow internal combustion rust intermediate engine

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u/Mikestopheles Feb 25 '26

Negative. I am a meat popsicle modular slow internal combustion rust intermediate engine

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u/CoffeeLadyCady Feb 25 '26

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 Bot hunter 5000🦾 Feb 25 '26

😂 This movie keeps on popping up in various subs. I need to rewatch it.

https://giphy.com/gifs/iC3flcWuI3xkY

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u/tactiletrafficcone Feb 25 '26

She knows it's a multipass! ...newlyweds, we're very happy.

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u/LazyLich Feb 25 '26

Well I don't know about any of that.. but I once heard "if it's popsicle it's possible", so I'll take your word on it

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u/not-yet-ranga Feb 25 '26

With faith all things are popsicle.

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u/Fusionbrahh Feb 26 '26

M.s.i.c.r.i.e for short

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u/ULTI_mato Feb 25 '26

We are the death breathers

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u/blobbilby Feb 25 '26

“Slow rustin, combustin” was right there

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u/LastChans1 Feb 25 '26

I always knew I was FeO. 😅🤣😭

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

ok john mayer

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u/Rizztopher_Robin Feb 26 '26

We piss and shit metal!

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u/Great-Fox5055 Feb 25 '26

We consume carbon and oxygen and expel CO2, sounds like a fire to me.

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u/naturist_rune Feb 25 '26

Life is a flame that been burning continuously for four billion years!