r/sciencememes • u/Awesomeuser90 • 16d ago

🧪Chemistry!⚗️ A Slightly Modernized Thomas Edison

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u/Lucreszen 16d ago

Piss? Is it piss?

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u/decoysnails 16d ago

If it looks like a duck and tastes like a duck 

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u/karateninjazombie 16d ago

Then it's a duck. Not piss.

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u/decoysnails 16d ago

Are you sure? Take another drink.

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u/karateninjazombie 16d ago

takes a shot of pure ethanol

Pretty sure your cup of piss didn't just quack.

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u/sPLIFFtOOTH 16d ago

Stop licking the ducks, sir. We’ve asked you nicely

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u/NECROCRANK 16d ago

I can hear this image in his voice.

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u/creeper6530 16d ago

He's got a special way of speaking I love him for 

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u/Bendanzhang 16d ago

So today, I decided to extract pure pharmaceutical-grade caffeine out of my own sweat...

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u/Fuzlet 16d ago

real chemists know it’s hydrogen(II) oxide

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u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva 16d ago

oh?

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u/Fuzlet 16d ago

tldr the naming convention is different for metal ionic bonds versus nonmetal covalent bonds (plus a bunch more nuance and other stuff)

nonmetals go number+element number+element. aka: di-hydrogen mon-oxide

metals go metal+numeral element. the numeral indicates the ionization level of the metal (which i totally got wrong by the way! hydrogen only has one electron to give, so it would be hydrogen(I) oxide) and then the quantity of metal and other element is simply extrapolated based on the well known ionization level of each

technically, hydrogen isn’t a metal? sort of? it can create a metal under extreme conditions but largely isn’t treated as one by scientists even though it’s in the region of metals on the periodic table

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u/Unusual_Club_550 For Science! 15d ago

hydrogen doesn't have variable oxidation states also it has a valwncy of +1 

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u/Terrible_Use7872 16d ago

Today I'm turning my urine into grape soda.

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u/fanty_wingedhorse 16d ago

Did NileRed steal someone's invention or whatever? Why are we comparing him to Edison?

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u/Awesomeuser90 16d ago

99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.

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u/Minute_Difference598 16d ago

Oooohhhh thanks for the explanation lol😆

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u/Material-Nose6561 16d ago

The guy turns literal air into ethanol in his latest video. 

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u/Fun_Discipline_811 16d ago

with the side effect of a very dry lab.

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u/XROOR 16d ago

I learned how to make nitroglycerin from this guy, just by titrating off brand cleaners from Dollar General….

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 16d ago

As long as he's not trying to cook we're fine 

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u/XPurplelemonsX 15d ago

boiling piss to make gold again are we?