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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

I'm a biochemist and I think the periodic table is easy to memorize. "Hydrogen, blah blah blah, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen" and that's it. Wait, hold on, sodium and chlorine are also on there somewhere...

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do you guys have to memorize fluorine too?

It's been a decade since I took chemistry, and I did not get very good marks in it, but it seems like the elements at the bottom of the table (with exception to Uranium and Plutonium) are just hanging out while the top elements do all the work.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it’s too big to be created in self sustaining fusion it’s too big to give a shit about.

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But... but... muh thulium....

jk all lanthanides are the same don't @ me physicists

also Ce(IV) catalyst stans

also also total synthesis tryhards who think SmI2 is ever the right call

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