#carbon chem

[h0bg0blin-meat]

#i said what i said #chemistry #chemical elements #chem #chemblr #chemistry memes #science tumblr #science shit #scienceblr #science memes #science #studyblr #stem #stemblr #oxygen #carbon

[er-cryptid]

#organic chemistry #ochem #o-chem #o chem #ochem 1 #ochem 2 #organic chemistry 1 #organic chemistry 2 #mcat organic chemistry #orgo #reactions #orgo reactions #chemical reactions #orgo mcat #mcat orgo #ochem reactions #ylides #ylide #carbon-carbon bonds #carbon bonds #carbon bond forming #c-c bonds

[transingthoseformers]

oh my god it's robot carbon

transformium here is just carbon plus: metal addition

Son of a bitch it's starting to make a lot of sense now if in this fic transformium acts a fuck ton like carbon but with a few key differences to be sillygoofy

#fic reading as ya do #Knockout's throwing a shit fit over it of course #y/n is in the oddest mix of shock that translates to ''what are the odds of that'' #also #also because this lets us get into juicier types of chemistry doesn't it? some of it fictional? please? #i forget a lot of what i learned in my last chem / bio class (sue me) but i do know that carbon is the fucking magic ticket #carbon can do so much and if transformium is similar ohhoh #the things that can happen

[nyawinterquartz]

Metal gear solid valentines day card that has a low quality PNG of smash bros solid snake that says "you make my metal gear solid". written in my blood

#mgs #metal gear solid #metal gear memes #valentines day #smash bros #just finished my chem test #flourine uranium carbon potassium rice tables #i once looked up alternatives to rice tables #it told me to use barley

[mediocreclementine]

Tired of mad scientist representation. Give me barely adequate scientist representation. Give me representation for the bitches like me who sit on the nasty ass lab floor with a thousand yard stare for ten minutes bc they're too exhausted and furious about the sudden catastrophic malfunction of the water filter/deionizer that supplies the whole chemistry instrument to stand up and do anything. I need to see myself in somebody who is a scientist technically but has no fuckin clue what's going on at any point and finds new and creative ways daily for Things To Go Wrong.

#i am so tired and sore and spent the last five hours panicked and starving hi #fuck elga medica pro all my homies hate elga medica pro #carbon filter ass fuckin bunk ass piece of shit cant pull enough water into the break tank to supply the chem instrument #so uhhhh if anybody goes to our er with a heart attack sucks to suck! we have to send it elsewhere to see if ur heart muscle is dying #shoutout to elga for being open mon-fri and closed labor day very cool #mc rambles

[vote2]

took the quiz for my online class and it had nothing to do w the two chapters we read this week but only had questions on the two videos he sent us 😭

#like its fine. generic carbon dating and timeline of macroevolution. whatever #gotta summarize the chapters i havnt been doing those yet. #then i have chem hw but its not due til tmr night

[ifwebefriends]

Carbon dating? Well I hope they find someone nice

#I just got out of my organic chem class #carbon dating

[peonypuddles]

Learned today that the research position I applied for/got means this summer I can get a research job AND I get to go to conferences for the chemistry society AND AND I get to observe and experiment with my professors and their research. Never been so excited for anything ever period

#puddles posts #personal #like I can’t convey how excited I am for this semester I’m so happy I applied for this #one of my chem professors is a biochemist and he’s studying tRNAs #i know someone’s studying a special combination of carbons bonded to amino acids that can identify biological molecules #AND MORE I HAVENT MET YET #this is just need shit but it’s been so long since school has been fun and now that I’m actually working towards my major #not just taking gen eds/ in Highschool #I’m so happy like my life feels good and fun rn #which is so rare so it’s nice :)

[feyosha]

Attention Science Enthusiasts and Chem Majors!

Reference for the non-chemists:

Alkaline Metals: putting water on these will set them on fire. Combines explosively with Halogens to produce salts, which are largely impervious to heat.

Halogens: corrosive as fuck. Includes Fluorine and Chlorine. Combines explosively with Alkali Metals to produce salts, which are largely impervious to heat.

Mercury: thanks to Cooper Pairs and Quantum Weirdness, is liquid at room temperature despite being heavy as Lead. Turns Aluminum to mush. Will drive you mad.

Dimethyl Cadmium: 2 methyl’s on a Cadmium! A Metal, directly on Carbon Functional Groups! Carcinogenic, Teratogenic, Neurotoxic, Lipophilic, with both acute and chronic effects, this shit will wreck your cellular machinery like an industrial mining apparatus turned on a neighborhood brownstone.

Azoazide Azide: hello yes I would like to order 14 Nitrogen atoms, but, can they all be exclusively single bonded in a second-order Azide? Whaddya mean it’s the least stable molecule ever fabricated? What do you mean it self-immolates in isolated conditions?

Sand: it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

[REDACTED]: goo

#feyosha #wizardposting #free range sustainable shitpost #magitechnobabble #arcane jargon #poll #chemistry #science side of tumblr

[escxelle]

i'm convinced sleep token are stem girlies because the amount of physics, maths and chemistry in their lyrics hmmm. lemme list all the references below the cut <3 (just as an fyi: this is a joke and i'm not being serious!! i'm just pointing out all the science references in their songs, dw)

alright, bit of a stretch to start but: "sulfur on your breath, granite in my chest." - granite from take me back to eden (2023). sulfur obviously being an element and granite is a rock (i'm not a chem student, i do astrophysics sorry idk anything else skdjsjd)

i'm being really picky but like "these days i'm a circuit board, integrated hardware you cannot afford." - aqua regia from take me back to eden (2023). vessel is an engineering girlie!! /j also i could point out the latin title is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid sooo

still in aqua regia, we have "sugar on the blood cells, carbon on the brain." mhm, speak stem girlie!

aqua regia is full of stem textbooks: "oxytocin running in the ether. silicon ballrooms. subatomic interactions if it's all good. gold rush, acid flux. saturate me, i can't get enough. cold love, hot blood." so the debrief: oxytocin is a hormone. ether are a class of compounds. the rest i think is self-explanatory, as they're elements and cute little stem terms oxox

i love stretching. "your viscera welcome me in." - vore from take me back to eden (2023). viscera are the large organs inside the body, including the heart, stomach, lungs, and intestines. biology girlies!! /j

more stretching <3 "who encrypted your dark gospel in body language? synapses snap back in blissful anguish." - ascensionism from take me back to eden (2023). encryption is the process of encoding information!! a computer science girlie!! then synapses are the places where neurons connect and communicate with each other <3

"half algorithm, half deity. glitches in the code or gaps in a strange dream." who ate a programming textbook?! /j

"digital demons make the night feel heavenly." side note but i think we should start calling trolls digital demons.

"lipstick, chemtrails, red flags, pink nails." has someone maybe studied chemtrails in their chemistry classes hmmm? /j

as i'm an astrophysics student i have to mention this: "the shifting states you follow me through." - the apparition from take me back to eden (2023). states, huh? liquid turning into a solid time is it? /j

"i feel my shadown dissolving." - rain from take me back to eden (2023). a metaphor or a chemistry textbook? /j

"it's that chemical cut that i can get down with." have many chemical cuts, huh?? /j

i'm an astrophysics girlie (gn) so i have to include this one: "a dangerous disposition somehow refracted in light, reflected in sound."

"i dream in phosphorescence." - take me back to eden from take me back to eden (2023). phosphorescence is a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. i mean, come on! the rest lyric? really?

"sink porcelain stained, choking up brain matter and make-up. just two days since the mainframe went down and i'm still messed up." biology and software engineering much? /j

"if my fate is a bad collision." - euclid from take me back to eden (2023). collision? huh are you a particle, hm? also euclid was a greek mathematician ! currently in my special relativity notes i have written "flat euclidean space"! riddle me that, sleep token. /j

"just orbiting the vacuum i am." - atlantic from this place will become your tomb (2021). yes, orbiting like the sun and moon and planets, right?? /j

"push down into membranes and layers, creating a slow dissection." - like that from this place will become your tomb (2021). yeah we get it, you're a biology student /j

"you lie an inch apart on your own continuum." - the love you want from this place will become your tomb (2021). continuum, huh?

"and though echoing futures are the buckling sutures." - fall for me from this place will become your tomb (2021). i bet you've seen many sutures huh dr. vessel! /j

right prepare for a lot of references here folks. "she's not acid nor alkaline." - alkaline from this place will become your tomb (2021). do i really have to explain the actions of this chem girlie? /j

"ooh, let's talk about chemistry 'cause i'm dying to melt through to the heart of her molecules 'til the particles part like holy water. if anything, she's an undiscovered element." i'm sure you'd love to infodump about your favourite subject! /j

"'cause i am broken into fractions." - distraction from this place will become your tomb (2021). i bet you deal with fractions all the time, you maths nerd!! /j

"and we go beyond the farthest reaches where the light bends and wraps beneath us and i know as you collapse into me." - telomeres from this place will become your tomb (2021). light bending? how very relativity of you. also telomeres are structures made from DNA sequences and proteins found at the ends of chromosomes.

"and i choke myself on sacred vapour." - high water from this place will become your tomb (2021). vapour because it's changed state, right? /j

"keep up on the charm offensive anymore." - missing limbs from this place will become your tomb (2021). i'm doing particle physics right now so i know exactly what a charm quark is! also limbs??? hello again dr. vessel /j

"'cause i look for scarlet and you look for ultraviolet." - higher from sundowning (2019). using ultraviolet filters for your astrophotography are you?? /j

"let the impulse to love and the instinct to kill entangle to one." - say that you will from sundowning (2019). entangle? entanglement? quantum entanglement? i'm connecting the dots.

"i want to roll the numbers. i want to feel my stars align again even if the earth breaks like burnt skin." - blood sport from sundowning (2019). an astrophysics fr /j

"and somewhere, somewhere the atoms stopped fusing." more stem!

"and out there, stuck in a quantum pattern, tangled with what i never said." this is something a theoretical physicist would say is all i'm saying. /j

now you have to listen to sleep token to hear these bangers >:)

#i've been obsessively listening to nothing but st for like a straight week #the brain rot got to me okay #sleep token #elle's interests hyperfixiations and shenanigans #escxelle

[gottalottarocks]

You guys have probably heard that the EPA just set new Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for the first time in decades for PFAS, which is BIG news in the industry, but not a surprise. I've been in meetings for months hearing about how new PFAS regulations were in the works, and the consensus in the environmental sector is that it's long overdue. But for the rest of you who've never heard of PFAS before I can break down what the big issues are and why they've taken so long to address.

^stolen from pubchem

So PFAS stands for per- and poly- flouroalkyl substances, and it's not one chemical compound, but an entire class of thousands of chemicals that have these chains of Carbon and Flourine atoms. For anybody who doesn't have a chem background fluorine is a nasty atom, it has seven electrons in its valence shell and it will do anything to fill it up to eight, creating incredibly strong bonds.

So you have really strong C-F bonds and these chains of C and F atoms are hydrophobic, which means these compounds are durable and water resistant, which makes them great for all sorts of industrial uses. And we've used them in everything: clothing, fast food wrappers, paints, solar panels, and non-stick pans just to start.

Unfortunately, these wonder chemicals are PBTM- Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic, and Mobile. They don't break down, they build up in the food chain, they have adverse health effects, and even though C-F chains are hydrophobic, additional compounds connected to them can make them soluble in water (so they're in our drinking water). We're starting to realize PFAS can raise cholesterol, inhibit immune response, interfere with your thyroid (part of your hormonal system), cause liver toxicity, is linked to cancer, and more!

At this point you're probably starting to think wtf, how did we allow the continued widespread use of these chemicals? Well, we have phased out quite a few high profile PFAS compounds including PFOA and PFOS, but we still want to regulate and test for them in our drinking water. While PFAS is in many different products, the biggest sources of contamination are industrial runoff, areas where fire fighting foams were tested and used, landfills that leach out PFAS into the surrounding area, and wastewater treatment plants. So don't feel too stressed about eating microwave popcorn or using nail polish.

The reason these regulations took so long to implement was because of how difficult it was to connect such small amounts of PFAS with health hazards. The level of concern for PFAS is extremely low- in the ppt (parts per trillion) range. When I sample for contaminants I'm generally testing in the ppm range and higher, for PFAS we're looking an entire scale lower. We literally did not have the technology before the last few decades to detect PFAS in the ppt range in water, let alone study their effects (you can't just impose massive regulations without any proof to back it up).

States that currently have PFAS limits in drinking water have mostly capped it in the 10-70 ppt range. The new MCLs are 4-10 ppt for the six PFAS compounds the EPA addressed, which are six of the most common and most studied PFAS compounds. Most of the bitching I've seen is about how much this will cost and that the new limits are too low. The conservative take on this is that there isn't enough evidence to support such low MCLs, although most people in the environmental industry feel that more and more research keeps coming out and will keep coming out (remember studying such small amounts of anything is difficult) to support these levels. On the other side of the spectrum, there's the consensus that this is just the beginning and that more and more regulations on PFAS will be needed.

And they're in the works! I saw a proposed rule by the EPA that would ban 12 (already defunct) PFAS substances from pesticides. It wouldn't really affect the current manufacturing of pesticides, but it would be a safeguard from letting them back into the manufacturing process in case of a conservative presidency.

If you're still here I'd like to end on the note that as our science improves, our understanding of how we have impacted the environment and our health will improve. We are constantly going to find out about the adverse effects of new chemicals or things that we may not even produce anymore, and that's a good thing. Over time we are going to make the world a healthier and safer place.

#PFAS #if the boomers were the lead poisoning generation then were the pfas and microplastics generation #chemistry #geology #science #environment #long post

[inkwellphotograph]

environmental science is beautiful

I see plenty of posts about STEM dark academia, but those are usually focused on chemistry, biology, and math.

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⚘ Filling boards with elaborate cause-and-effect trees for ecology. Food webs, nutrient cycling, and pollution effects.

⚘ Hot coffee on long walks around local gardens, marvelling at the complexity of the natural world as it goes about its day.

⚘ Home-grown veggies and spices. Save yourself money, practice your horticultural skills, help reduce your carbon footprint, and eat food you feel proud of growing yourself.

⚘ Ducking in and out of crowded hallways in your labcoat, catching sideways glances from other students.

⚘ Black clothes that won't show the soil stains

⚘ Very steady hands from titrating in your chemistry labs, drawing perfect hexagons from organic chem

⚘ Stained lab books and guides tucked under your arm as you run between classrooms

#enviromental science #enviro sci #stemblr #stem academia #stem student #natural science #dark academia #academia aesthetic #romanticise everything #romanticise school #student life #grey academia #light academia #cryptid academia #chaotic academia #green academia #goblincore #earth academia #naturecore #earthcore

[er-cryptid]

#organic chemistry #ochem #o-chem #o chem #ochem 1 #ochem 2 #organic chemistry 1 #organic chemistry 2 #mcat organic chemistry #orgo #reactions #orgo reactions #chemical reactions #orgo mcat #mcat orgo #ochem reactions #studyblr #notes #pentane #carbon chains #carbons #carbon #hydrocarbons #hydrocarbon

[chemblrish]

23 October 2022

So, I failed two tests - mostly because I was really nervous, not because I was unprepared. Coming home on Friday I felt pretty dreadful, but I'm over it now. It's not the end of the world! I'm planning on retaking these two tests this upcoming week and I'm confident I can do better next time :)

I'm also really happy with how much work I've managed to get done over the weekend! (A summary under the cut.)

On Saturday I:

added bibliography to my safety in chem lab lab report

corrected last week's chem lab report

wrote this week's chem lab report

did concentration exercises for the upcoming chem test

studied logarithms

stopped procrastinating going to the store and finally got a new pair of shoes for the colder weather

baked cinnamon rolls :)

On Sunday I:

wrote this week's safety in chem lab lab report

started preparing for next week's safety in chem lab lab class (I'll be synthesizing manganese carbonate which literally looks like dirt lol I'm actually so excited!)

started preparing for next week's chem lab class

did concentration exercises again

went for a walk!

#im so much more nervous about talking to the chem prof #than actually retaking those tests lol i hate this guy #mine #studyblr #chemblr #studyspo #study motivation

[ss-shitstorm]

Hey I know you’ve probably already been asked this but what type of chemistry do you use for breaking bread like biochem and where did you learn this or have any book recommendations to pick it up? Also ty in advance I love your writing!!💕💕

oh my fucking god. oh my god. buddy. buddy you have made my fucking LIFE ASKING THIS OH GOD

So like, most of the chemistry I've used so far has just been Genchem and O Chem(with a wee few modifications to make it believable as a Cybertronian discipline, like Transformium being able to hold 4 bonds like Carbon but preferentially forming bonds w metals and needing an EMP pulse to interact w more electronegative atoms) I may wind up needing to get into a bit of Inorganic chemistry, but that's probably fewer and further in between. If you want a better handle on the stuff I'm writing or if you just want to learn more in general, then I'd recommend giving yourself a lil crash course in Genchem and then delving into O chem a bit more extensively (protip : you need WAY less Genchem then you'd think to fully understand O chem. God I wish someone had told me this 5 years ago. If you search "Genchem for non majors", you'll probably learn enough that way.)

THAT SAID : here's a chaotic, not really in any order list of the books/youtube channels/etc that I've directly used/am using for this fic.

Books :

Caveman Chemistry, Kevin R Dunn - Alot of hands-on old timey historical chemistry lessons w detailed instructions on how to complete them.(YOU GET TO MAKE YOUR OWN ASPIRIN AND DRAIN CLEANER!) Delivered with a delightfully occult bend.

Back To basics,(Reader's Digest) - Survivalist homesteading bible. Not strictly chemistry but has alot of earthy hippy ways of generating energy( biofuels my beloved)

An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, Dougal Drysdale - Honestly this, and any other firefighting manuals are worth their weight in gold for figuring out how to not set yourself and your neighborhood on fire while playing with, well, fire. Trying to look this info up online is like playing russian roulette with intentional misinformation and your fbi guy.

(there's another book I have that's even more detailed but I can't find it right now or remember the name. I'll update this list when I can!)

Organic Chemistry, John Mcmurray 8th edition : generic but good college O chem textbook. You can search around and find free versions to download relatively easily.

The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual, James W Zubrick - Also a very good way to learn how to not set yourself and your neighborhood on fire when playing with glassware/gases. Very in-depth instructions on setting up and using lab equipment without breaking anything or your brain. Has a fuckton of pictures. Author has a massive sense of humor and makes this heavy subject easy to read. Again, easy to download/find in archives

Unfortunately I do not have any recommendations for Genchem books. I mostly used free online courses like Khan Academy to learn what I did.(I would def. recommend them though)

Youtube Channels :

The Organic Chemistry Tutor : Dude puts everything from reaction mechanisms to retrosynth problems down in the simplest possible terms. Does not beat around the bush with euphemisms or stories, gets right to business. If you have trouble paying attention, or lose your mind when a professor goes off on a tangent, this man is your savior. I have crippling unmedicated ADHD and no STEM background whatesoever and this man still managed to teach me 2 separate ways to execute a Gabriel Synthesis

Nile Red : World's most inefficient and most powerful wizard. I am not entirely convinced he's human. Does shit like turning plastic gloves into drinkable grape soda or making sweeteners out of his own piss and somehow makes it explainable to trash goblins like me who only need the science for warlord pussy.

again, anon, holy shit thank you so much. Like you wouldn't believe the amount of damage you've just undone. i have been beating myself into a pulp and spiraling into anxiety about this fic an trying to do everything right and you've given me enough moxie to fuel me for at least the next 10 chapters. If you have any more questions or more specific questions, please do not hesitate to ask! I can't guarantee I can answer them, but damnit I'll try. Take care and happy learning you funky lil moonbean.

#Breaking Bread #megatron #megatron/reader #I know I don't need those tags but lord I'm relishing the thought of ppl stumbling upon this w 0 context #u know what I'ma go ahead and pin this thing. #Took me YEARS just to find out exactly WHAT I needed to learn and WHERE to learn it #if I can save someone from wasting all that time then that'll be nice

[hominoidea]

listen i know canonically ema skye does forensic bio/crim/chem but in my heart she is a forensic anthropologist. walk into any forensic anth department and you will probably find at least 10 carbon copies of her. she is the blueprint.

#she already does like five different forensics jobs why not add one more #am i biased as a forensic anth major? probably. #but like trust me. #ema skye #ace attorney