Subject: Chemistry!
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Posted on: 2018-08-19 05:28:00 UTC
You're very familiar with the horrors of dihydrogen oxide, of course. Perhaps less well known, Ignition! is back in print! It's a history of the exciting world of rocket fuel chemistry, with an intro by none other than Isaac Asimov himself.
I was very excited by the thought of being a δ allotrope, but "J" is absent from the periodic table, and "et" is a hard digraph to get in too.
-Juliette
As hS and Nesh remember, I used to make a lot of PPC memes using Walfas. Then I stopped because (among other things) Walfas's create.swf no longer opens in a new tab on my computer, and instead my laptop downloads the file, which I don't know if I want. Since I can't do that, I decided to do something PPC and memey another way, by trying to figure out what memes and/or specific iterations of a meme best represent some Boarders I know. I've only got two, myself included, because I don't have that many ideas, but that's what replying with your own is for! Enjoy!
P.S. If you were affected by my little... whatever it was I did in the Plort thread, do note that I have replied with an apology. You may read it as you wish.
Huinesoron: They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard
Reasoning: Do I have to explain this one? He's a LotR fan. He's a goofball, if you manage to get him in a silly mood. This song encapsulates both.
See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY
Another possible candidate: Look At This Graph (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlNIVXpIns)
twistedwindowpane: Rush E
Reasoning: Any of Sheet Music Boss's Russian songs reflect me pretty well, purely because they get faster and crazier over time, showing a prime example of the various speeds at which my mind functions (and malfunctions). Rush E would have to be my favorite because it also throws in the Markiplier "E" meme.
See it here (warning, contains a couple near-jumpscares via a sudden loud "E"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qskm9MTz2V4
Other Candidates: Running in the 90s except it speeds up from 0% to 400% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOuVGjHP-4), Darude Sandstorm on accordions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uizNcQcpK-8)
Have fun making your own suggestions! (Key words are "have fun." I am not going to go ruining anyone's days any further if I can help it. :D)
-Twistey
"PPC!!2! STOP EATING MY FANFIC!!1!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5cMZymSr0
-Twistey
I don't have a good answer for myself. Maybe Chemistry Cat, because cats and puns and science, but I don't do chemistry. hS does chemistry.
Or maybe this video? (NSFW: swearing.) It's not really a meme, but it should be. ^_^
~Neshomeh
That should be a meme. You are so right.
-Twistey
... NaH.
Or: they say the noble gasses don't react, but neon and flerovium come together just FiNe.
~HUINeSORn
(Is this where I start element-spelling everyone's names? ~Hs (=hassium))
Sulfur and Fluorine are straightforward, but which M should I use (given, as may or may not have been mentioned before on this Board, it stands for Marisa)?
You've already formed Sulfur Hexafluoride, which is apparently a potent greenhouse gas which reacts violently with lithium. So if you were SMgF, you could probably get that kind of explosion from the magnesium.
There are three different manganese (Mn) fluorides, and a few for Molybdenum (Mo), but none of them strike any particularly interesting chords. And, er... Md, Mt, and Mc are all trans-uranic artificial elements; at that point you wouldn't care about the fluorine, because you're now a nuclear explosion.
I think SMgF is probably the most interesting, chemically-speaking; all three elements react with each other, so it'd be a sort of pot-luck soup of SF6 (greenhouse gas), MgF2 (anti-reflective coating that eats your bones), and MgS (a salt... that gives off horribly toxic H2S if it gets wet). And if they don't react, you've got the stink of sulfur, the white flames of magnesium, and the eats-your-bones of fluorine. What's not to like???
hS
But this one's also the most fun to pronounce as a word. XD
I'm a stinking white fire that eats bones!
Sulfur, it seems, melts into a 'blood-red liquid' which burns a lovely shade of blue. And fluorine is a yellow-green, heavier-than-air gas.
...
I cannot yet draw gases.
hS
It's surprisingly pretty. =O
6-15-16 is Carbon-Phosphorus-Sulfur, which would be some sort of organithiophosphate. You could be an insecticide!
Or 61-51-6, which is Promethium-Antimony-Carbon. That's, er... well, promethium is radioactive, and antimony I'm pretty sure is toxic. So maybe stick with the first option, yeah? ^_^
hS
You're very familiar with the horrors of dihydrogen oxide, of course. Perhaps less well known, Ignition! is back in print! It's a history of the exciting world of rocket fuel chemistry, with an intro by none other than Isaac Asimov himself.
I was very excited by the thought of being a δ allotrope, but "J" is absent from the periodic table, and "et" is a hard digraph to get in too.
-Juliette
Pronounced 'delta-J-you-li-ERRRRRRRT'. (As my wife keeps pointing out, English accents tend to drop Rs everywhere anyway.)
Erbium is a lanthanide, but not a notably horrible one. Tellurium is a mildly toxic pseudo-oxygen... I mean, you've got Uranium, which is the usual bad news, but after that the worst thing is Lithium, which might burn a bit.
Compared to Nesh's version, which has Astatine at its core, and has blown up before I even finished the sentence. ^_^
hS
Calliope and I have been bouncing ideas off of each other for a Library series. Could we borrow the Librarian and their shelves to tell some more in-HQ stories?
We're planning on giving them some Assistant Librarians, who will handle things like chasing down overdue books, reshelving, and acquiring new stock. Of course, the mysterious nature of the Librarian themself, and the shadowy Front Room, will be cherished and kept Canon!
Um. ... can you drop me an email about that? I think you have my address, and it's probably easier than me waffling all over the Board. (Feel free to loop Calliope in too.)
hS
...that Uranium Lithiide would be a fun combination. Albeit not as fun as anything with Astatine!
... I can't help I'm going to fuse with Pbobos, because I've acquired a bunch of 'o's and 'h's.
I mean, probably *BOOM*, but besides that...
~NEsHoMoH
I mean, boom, definitely - PHOBOS is boom all by himself, with phosphorus spontaneously igniting, and everything that's not Boron joining in. The added hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur from ThOMoSH will just make that bigger.
But thorium and moly-b are just heavy metals. Thorium's mildly radioactive, so the smoke will mutate you, but moly is pretty boring.
On the other hand, sulfur being there means you'll get all kinds of sulfates, -ides, and others, which are probably all toxic. So that's fun!
hS
We can do better than that!
Actually, we can get it exact: PHOBOS is valid
No?
Element-spelling! My M is a problem. We've got Mg, Mo, Mn, Mt, Mc, and Md to work with. Looks like I'm getting molybdenum.
So, let's see... NeSHOMoH? Or, if I wanted to be radioactive, NEsHOMoH or NEsHoMoH?
PHOBOS can be spelled all upper-case!
~Neshomeh
Triholmium (HoHoHo).
You have to ask yourself: why wouldn't you want to be radioactive? Particularly when the non- version involves compounds of neon, which is a bit tricky to pull off. ... unlike Einsteinium-Holmium compounds, obviously, those are childs' play. :D
PHOBOS... based on the MtG thing, phosphorus is a great start, because elemental P comes in a whole range of colours. White, yellow, red, violet, brown, and black are known, plus white phosphorus glows green. It's a whole rainbow!
You'll be pleased(?) to know I have tried, but can't make HO2PBS into an actual chemical structure. Sadly.
hS
I like the way this one looks the best anyway. So I guess the next question is, just how big is the explosion? {= D
Ironic that the only color you don't mention for phosphorus is blue.
~NEsHoMoH
... I guess you must be a mixture. And that means I can refer to the world's foremost authority on chemistry, nay, on science as a whole:
What If? is an excellent book which I highly recommend. Down on page 35, xkcd's Randall sets out to answer the question:
What would happen if you made a periodic table out of cube-shaped bricks, where each brick was made of the corresponding element?
Working through your name, in order of atomic number, these are his comments:
-The cube of hydrogen would rise upward and disperse, like a balloon without a balloon.
-The... nitrogen drift[s] around, slowly dispersing.
-[No specific comment on Molybdenum. It's pretty stable stuff.]
-[Actually no comment on Holmium, either. It apparently changes colour depending on lighting conditions, from yellow to red.]
So far, so good, but Es is a 7th-row element:
-[On the sixth row] you would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" - that is, you would be cooked.
The seventh row would be much worse.
[...]
Unfortunately for our project, the transuranic elements don't vanish quietly. They decay radioactively. And most of them decay into things that also decay. A cube of any of the highest-numbered elements would decay within seconds, releasing a tremendous amount of energy.
The result wouldn't be like a nuclear explosion - it would be a nuclear explosion.
...
At this point, I was going to reveal that you actually have an ace up your sleeve that might save you. Holmium, you see, is an aggressive neutron scavenger - it's actually used to poison nuclear reactors, to stop the chain reaction from running. So I was thinking it would dampen the explosion for you.
Except... Einsteinium decay isn't a chain reaction. It's just an everything-explodes-at-once reaction. So while the Ho would probably cut down on some of the elemental shrapnel, the Es is still gonna just go boom. :)
(Now, if I had the Ho, it would really help with my Uranium and Radon. Actually, Indium can fulfil the same purpose... but I've got the same Es as you, so I'm going to go boom anyway.)
hS
When he added Astatine to that table... well, to paraphrase...
"When I went back over this, I wondered whu I'd stopped drawing the elements doining all their stuff. You know, the helium wasn't floating off, and...
And then I remembered that this is the last you'd actually see of the table."
Astatine is fun.
Thallium Oxygen Thallium. Works neat enough.
[Checks]
It does and all! You are Thallous oxide, a toxic black crystal who reacts readily with water to make a yellow solution. You are used in high-temperature superconductors, and in certain types of glass.
^_^
hS, sadly not a real chemical.
Th isn't Thallium - it's Thorium. And I'm afraid it looks like Th(I) isn't stable - Thorium prefers the 4+ form.
Sorry.
(At least you won't explode; that's something!)
hS
Besides, this is the closest I will ever get to being Thor. :-P
And I was almost successful - just that annoying R. The alternative is SNOWBLaZi, which sounds... worse.
What do Sulphur, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Tungsten, Boron, Lanthanum and Zirconium do together? I’m hoping it won’t blow anything up!
That beats me and Ix hands down. Shockingly, I don't think you're even particularly toxic - I assumed Lanthanum would kill you, but apparently not!
We could probably make you a little more elegant... how about starting with tin, SnOWBLaZr? You could also soften the Z, and become SnOWBLaSe; Selenium is only toxic in large quantities.
hS
Now I even get to keep the E at the end. And I don't get blown up or poisoned.
Correction: the symbol for zinc is actually Zn. Is there such a thing as a mini-element?
Zink (English: zinc) and Zinn (English: tin) are two different elements.
HG
HIErONYMoS GeRaUBaReAt? The first name works, but the latter is falling apart at the hinges.
Perhaps GeAuBaRg? Or GeRaUBrAt might be best...
You've managed to just about stay stable with HIErONYMoS, but GeRaUBrAt is stuffed with no less than three radioactive elements, plus a liquid element... plus, appropriately enough, Germanium. So I guess it's a gamma-radiating soup of Germanness.
In fact... yeah, no, Radium and Astatine are both alpha emitters; you're pretty much going to set off a Uranium chain reaction. Hope you like mushrooms...
hS, also exploding horribly if that helps
I was actually correcting my own previous post - I tried zinc for the Z at the end.
Remember that time a bunch of Boarders turned into radioactive elements and blew up?
Man, that was good times. ^ ^ ^
~NEsHoMoH
Specifically, a science.
-Twistey
TaWISTeY is Tantalum-Tungsten-Iodine-Sulfur-Tellurium-Yttrium.
Straight away, I can tell you that Yttrium compounds cause lung disease, and that it will probably bond with either iodine or sulfur. Tantalum and Tellurium form quasicrystal structures - a worrying concept which is sort of like the equivalent of pi in symmetry: they are ordered, structured, but not in a repeating pattern. Tungsten, of course, is there to add weight, but will also happily bond with the Iodine if Yttrium doesn't want it. It's probably going to be toxic.
But! At least you're not radioactive or likely to blow up. ^_^
hS
How about AsHa CatarI?
IXeAmAs might be the best one. It's pronounced right, and if you allow 'ea' to be a variant transcription of the 'ih' sound, it's even spelt right provided you don't have access to the letter Z. :D
hS
Though the way ITiNaZr doesn’t look at all like my name kind of amuses me, too.
Thanks!
Iodine, Xenon, Americium and Arsenic... I don't know what that combination would do, but I'm pretty sure we'd all end up dead.
Then again, since I've got Hydrogen, Uranium, Indium, Einsteinium(!), Oxygen and Radon, I don't really get to talk, do I?
hS (and Hs hassium isn't much better; its most stable isotope has a half-life of ten seconds...)
That video is much too angry to be you. :P
Try this one on for size?
See, I was also considering the Portal 2 Curiosity Core for probably more or less the same reasons. ^_^;
~Neshomeh
I don't know. Probably.
-Phobos
I won’t be able to share it until I get off work because of phones. Consider this a placeholder reminder to post it or you.
My favorite Modern deck is 8Rack. It makes my opponent discard their whole hand. Then it punishes them for not having any cards in their hand. I don't want them to play Magic or have fun.
-Phobos
In about a month you will find out why it's a hilarious coincidence that you said that. ^_^
hS
Because of the combination of goofiness and epicness... and epic goofs. Maybe this one in particular, because I totally think "omelet prevail" is something you'd say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MscqWwPcrg
-Twistey
I think Larf is that one .gif of a waffle falling over.
Thoth: Homer Simpson yelling "Neeeeeerd" out a car window.
Also Geema is probably "WHO WAS PHONE"
https://goo.gl/images/dM2JdB when finding badfic
Maybe I'm that 'hold my flower' meme?
I'm a terrible person.
Larf: *slaps roof of car*
GMA: Worst. Thing. Ever. (Alternative: Doom: Repercussions of Evil (It's the only badfic copypasta meme I know of))
Tomash: Compiling!(Does that count as a meme?)
Ypsi: Mirrors aren't real
Granz: Gay Powers.
Maslab: OwO, maybe?
Mikel: *Maniacal Laugh*
Cal: I'll take this potato chip...
I'll have you know that cookies are far superior to chips. :P
But seriously, with all the plotting I do and how complicated I can get? It's either that or Yzma's Box.
