The Chemical Structure of Redstone
So I was curious about what the chemical structure of Redstone looks like, and Minecraft Education Edition, albeit unintentionally, gives us a canon look into what Redstone is made of:
In Minecraft Education Edition, putting a Redstone Block into a Material Reducer shows that it's composed of 31 Carbon, 31 Uranium, and 38 Unobtanium, which we can assume to be measured in grams
Dividing the Redstone Block into Redstone Dust, each Redstone Dust is then composed of approximately 3.4 Carbon, 3.4 Uranium, and 4.2 Unobtanium
Again assuming that's measured in grams, that's 0.17 cm³ of Uranium, 1.496 cm³ of Carbon, and ???³ of Unobtanium per Redstone Dust
So what does this tell us about the chemical structure of Redstone? Basing this on Redstone Dust's composition, we can estimate that each Redstone molecule is composed of 3 Carbon atoms, 3 Uranium atoms, 4 Unobtanium atoms, a little under half of the time it binds to an extra Uranium and/or Carbon, and 20% of the time it binds to an extra Unobtanium
This also has some horrifying implications for how Redstone works:
Redstone would be extremely volatile as the radioactive decay from Unobtanium and Uranium would occasionally release Helium ions through alpha radiation, sometimes breaking apart Carbon into two Beryllium atoms (as it absorbs the extra proton and neutron from the Uranium) or merging into Oxygen
So Redstone should, in theory, be extremely flammable and potentially explosive, which implies that cave static, or the player mining Redstone with an Iron Pickaxe, could lead to a spark that causes an explosive cave-in
As Unobtanium is just a placeholder for unobtainable elements (hence the name), I'm going to estimate Unobtanium in this case as Unbinilium, the placeholder name for element 120
Why?
I'm estimating the Unobtanium as Redstone as being larger than the largest man-made element, Oganesson, which holds an impressive 118 protons
Each valence electron shell, from innermost to outermost, can bind with 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, and 8 shells respectively, so I'd like Unobtanium to be an element we haven't discovered yet, and consequently I'd like to jump up to the next shell
While I could estimate with element 119's placeholder, Ununennium, it would have one electron in the next shell, so Unbinilium allows for easier chemical binding
So what does this molecule look like then? Well, horrifyingly...
It looks like this. As Redstone forms in crystal lattices, and only two Carbon atoms are free to bind, I can absolutely see why it's so brittle that it breaks into powder.
This makes the structure of Redstone:
C3U3Uno4 (55% of molecules)
C4U3Uno4 (13% of molecules)
C3U4Uno4 (13% of molecules)
C4U4Uno4 (7% of molecules)
C3U3Uno5 (5% of molecules)
C4U3Uno5 (3% of molecules)
C3U4Uno5 (3% of molecules)
C4U4Uno5 (1% of molecules)
An extremely radioactive, flammable, and explosive compound.
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have you seen the hazbin trailer? And if yes what's your opinion on it
Yes, it looks very decent. Charlie's personality seems like it's put together better than the pilot. I like Charlie's new voice actor but I miss everyone else's. Angels looking like demons has always been a design issue, its a shame they didn't change it.
It did feel like it spoiled what is going to happen, and it does feel like it's going the direction Helluva Boss is in terms of swapped plot. Helluva Boss was initially about IMP, a bunch of assassins who kill humans for profit, but then it devolved into Stolas romantic traumatic drama. Hazbin Hotel was supposed to be about redeeming sinners but now it looks like they're just going straight into war with Heaven. On one hand, I'm glad it's not gonna be an episodic "redeem this person now!" because feasibly that can't work forever. Plus, they are very short on time, they only have 8 eps per season so they had to basically get right to it. On the other hand, that kind of defeats the entire point of the pilot, the entire point of the title- it was Hazbin Hotel, a place for sinners to be redeemed, and it seems like immediately that idea is going to be shut down. But I could be wrong, the trailer showed a lot, but not enough context to be sure.
As for woman-lead, I will retract my statement by just a tad because Charlie is indeed the main character here, but I'm still on the fence based off the screen time the other women got in the trailer. Niffty's and Cherri's was next to nothing. Vaggie looks like she's just getting a song to herself luckily, but it looks like it is only going to be one, and we also don't know what she's singing about just yet. So I am more hopeful but still skeptical based on Helluva Boss's writing.
I'm def excited for Charlie and Alastor, even if I don't end up satisfied with their arcs or direction.
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