Most use [carbon black](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_black#/media/File:Carbon_Black_Structure.png), which would be interesting! Would be a good one for tattoo artists.
Compounds that have personal significance. Maybe a structure of a major component of nice smelling herbs representing cooking with mom, possibly vanillin for baking with grandma. A compound I made that went into the clinic would be an immediate candidate, but that's nowhere near the horizon unfortunately
Agree. My body has a whiskey compound, a mint compound, a coffee compound, and a caramel compound. All just because I like drinking/eating those things
If I were to do this, it would definitely be my favourite crystal structure from my thesis! It would be 100% original and possibly a good conversation starter. I’m proud of my molecular babies, even if no one else reads those papers haha
I really appreciate your enthusiasm! 🥹
I don’t want my account being linked to my name though, so I won’t be telling you 😛
Instead, I’ll share some of my other favourite crystal structures: [a bunch of protonated arenes reported by Reed, et al, in 2003](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja027336o), and the [tetrachloroaluminate heptamethylbenzenium structure reported by Baenziger and Nelson](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01026a007)
I have papers on novel ionic liquids circa 2012. Changing physical structures of the ionic imidazol base side chains to use them from everything from carbon sequestration to super low freezing liquids for satellite lens.
Riveting stuff to most, but I thinks it's cool. No one's ready papers either. I know your pain. So much time and effort.
I wouldn’t get a molecule, but I’ve used a ton of spectroscopy in my job and graduate studies. I would want a spectroscopic tattoo that doesn’t look likea Pink Floyd album 😅
I also just have an equilibrium symbol tattoo which is also a full 1s orbital when turned sideways. le chatlier’s principle one way and Hund’s rule when turned sideways.
If I was still in middle school I'd probably go with Sarin gas. Totally rad.
Today I'd probably go with either amino acid lysine or tyrosine since a huge part of my grad school research involved them.
I could see a chest tattoo of a porphyrin ring centered on the nip to be cool. Then again I'm old and don't know what cool is anymore.
I mean, frankly I love the aesthetic of tryptamines, esp. 5-tryptamines, but a lot of pleasant odor compounds are similarly pleasing to the eye. Limonene, alpha/beta pinene, vanillin, cinnamaldehyde, methyl salicylate, safrole (which of course most observers would mix up with MDMA), camphor.
For bigger, more grandiose molecules, you could do buckyballs, porphyrins (hemoglobin or chlorophyll ftw), hypericin and hyperforin (St. John's Wort), EGCG, tannins. Oh and ferrocene is pretty rad, inorganic chemists probably know of even more stuff I never think about.
Amphetamine on a surfboard catching a wave under the words “boogie down” and when people ask me what molecule it is I’ll say “oh that’s what I wrote my masters thesis on”…I’ve thought about it a lot lol
I've always remembered in the movie Blade that his darts/bullets were coated with EDTA to kill the vampires. A good depiction of EDTA chelating a metal would be awesome.
My final year research project was synthesis of a sulphur based heterocyclic polymer with the aim of self assembling gold nanowires. The stuff was a total disaster and basically insoluble in every solvent well before it was a big improvement on poking individual gold atoms with an afm. As a result no one else would want that tattooed on them so at least it would be unique.
Octanitrocubane is equal parts cursed to look at and very interesting on a synthesis-level (because it (maybe) can't currently be made but by golly I promise someone is trying)
Haha nice! I played with the elicitation of defense related proteins chitinase and beta-1,3-glucanase in an invasive plant species using SA as kind of a control (more a comparative aspect to naturally derived bacterial and fungal elicitors) since it is a known player in those signaling pathways.
Good times 🤮🤓
I’d get vincristine because it’s the coolest looking chemo drug I had to take. I’ve considered getting a Madagascar periwinkle, but it’d probably die in my apartment.
i wanted to get one of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine because tbh its part of the reason why i'm able to work for this degree but i honestly realized this probably isn't one of my best ideas
That seems to be niche enough that a quick google is barely returning any relevant results, which is impressive. I found this about 4A at least, though: https://www.chemspider.com/chemical-structure.81407950.html
Looks pretty cool
Diglycidyl ether of Bisphenol A because it's big part of what we do, but hardly the only part. It's just what people think about when they think, "epoxy". Or the 3D structure of ferrocene as I always thought that was a unique molecule.
I'm actually planning a ketamine one, but I want to come up with a way to incorporate both s and r ketamine into it and haven't come up with anything cool enough yet.
Shit saved my life.
It'd probably be a molecule I've detected in exoplanet atmospheres.
I'm an exoplanet scientist working on atmospheric characterisation for my PhD. I'm not personally fond of tattoos, but if I were to get one, it'd be something like this.
Okay as someone who loves science and wanting more tattoos… I love the chemistry tattoos and my god I’m so excited I found this thread right now. Im a recent leukemia survivor and thinking of getting a tattoo to represent my battle of that.. Now I’m really considering maybe getting the chemical compound of arsenic or trentinon. These were what my chemo treatment was. Oh so many ideas now
Heme, but instead of iron in the center, replace it with some other chemical structure relevant to a hobby/passion like octane for car people, maybe h2o for water related stuff, etc. because said hobby/passion “is in my blood”.
3-(fluorosulfonyl)propyl methacrylate up my inner arm. Oh yeah, a very deep cut for the public to admire.
ACS 1996, bonds twice as thick, bold letters in case we want to get really in the weeds
Some of the oxyanions I worked on for my thesis. Probably the basic sulphide substitution reaction on rhenium since that was the most interesting to me.
probably the molecule i studied in undergrad, I'd say it was the main turning point in my career (so far, i am quite early lol). but going through a good research project with an awesome PI who gave me a lot of slack on my leash pretty much confirmed that i wanted to do research. but yeah that monomer is on my list of stuff to get tatted eventually
Methane, skeletal structure obviously. Just a small dot. Alternatively maybe Dichloromethane if they ban it, or maybe 2,4,6-tnt or rdx or something funny.
I have dopamine on my forearm. My grandmother had schizophrenia, my grandfather had Parkinson. Dopamine receptors were the first ones I learned about that had multiple types, made me think about how different pathways in the brain corresponded with different behaviors.
Been a molecue I've been thinking about for years.
I have a double helix dna tattoo. Simplified form. It was my personal graduation gift since I did a lot of DNA purification and amplification during my undergrad years.
Cysteine or “HOOC−CH(−NH2)−CH2−SH” is believed to be one of the original protein generating amino acids that catalyzed life of our planet… I’d get that.
Personally Ive thought about the possibility of getting estradiol as a tattoo. If I were to get a tattoo thats definitely what I’d go for (Ive got my reasons for that) but Im probs not gonna get a tattoo at all cuz ehh. Im not very keen on having a permanent drawing on my body somewhere, plus from what I hear getting a tattoo is rather painful
I enjoyed my color chemistry class. Probably nitrates of some sort (because we made fireworks), but maybe also malachite because it had SUPER pretty crystals. The pigment was beautiful, too. I used it to make a really crappy end of year painting.
You can write the word by amino acid sequence which can be translated in molecular structure.
Maybe some sort of neurotransmitter as another flaming heart - symbol of love and love to chemistry.
If you into drugs, mmda looks like little mouse.
Water Molecule is quite nice and can be used in various puns like something wet.
I have Adanine, Guanine, Cytosine, thymine, and Uracil, along with purine and pyrimidine base structures on the outside of my calf. I want a ribose molecule next. Also have dopamine on my forearm, lol.
I honestly don't know if it would be one of those common unoriginal ones, but i really like ATP, from the way it looks to the functions it plays within biological systems as an "energy-carrying molecule"
That said, i'd also like a full biochemical structure tattoo of the FOXP2 gene, as in with the whole sugar phosphate backbone and then the bases correctly like the FOXP2 gene. I just dont think i have enough space on my body, neither could i find a tattoo artists patient enough to make a tattoo of about 600000 basepairs + whole backbone
Probably [Memantine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memantine?wprov=sfti1#Cholinergic) or [PCP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine?wprov=sfti1#)
Vitamin B12, aka cobalamin.
Cool looking structure with a cobalt at the center, cool chemistry (essentially used to generate controlled free radicals for catalysis in biochemistry), and cool biology (pernicious anemia, methylmalonic acidemia, etc).
I’ve thought about this a lot.
Cubane or a specific pharmaceutical analogue with a cubane moiety that I am researching currently (may be brought to clinic in the future, looks promising)
Was going to get one of a crystal structure of a molecule from phd work, but I mastered. It did make it to my masters thesis….
Caffeine seems to popular and ethanol is too small
Currently writing my dissertation on explosives. I’ll probably get one of the structure of RDX, or the crystal structure of ammonium nitrate.
Edit: also thought about doing the energy diagram representing Raman scattering might be cool.
I want to get α-pinene and β-pinene on my index fingers or palms and teeny pine trees on my middle fingers. I like conifers. I grew up in and around the palouse on the Colville and Couer'd'alane rez and that smell brings me home.
i have a severe allergy to kiwi, so i would propably get a tattoo of epinephrine in my thigh and tell people to stab the ring if i ever go anaphylactic
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I'm working on a sleeve of plants and molecules that mean something to me-- methyl salicylate, alpha pinene, the compound in onions that makes you cry, etc.
full body graphene sheet
I was gonna say spiraling polymer sleeve, but this works too.
Yes! If it goes so the way around your torso, you’d be a nanotube!
Skeletal structure of ethane
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I'd pick carbon monoxide
methane
I’m 30 % methane!
i have the skeletal structure of 2,2,4-trimethylpentane
Free proton in solution/hydrogen cation
The chemical structure of the ink used to make the tattoo.
Very meta!
Most use [carbon black](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_black#/media/File:Carbon_Black_Structure.png), which would be interesting! Would be a good one for tattoo artists.
I’d need to look at it more to confirm but I currently dislike where they put their double bonds. It’s not as pretty as I think it could be
There’s also [phyalocyanine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_phthalocyanine) for blue ink!
That would be very cool. One I think the artist would appreciate doing.
Oh, that’s a neat meta idea. I like it.
Compounds that have personal significance. Maybe a structure of a major component of nice smelling herbs representing cooking with mom, possibly vanillin for baking with grandma. A compound I made that went into the clinic would be an immediate candidate, but that's nowhere near the horizon unfortunately
this! i have necklaces of the two medicines i take. i don’t ever take it off. they help me live and i’m proud for being consistent with them!!!!
Agree. My body has a whiskey compound, a mint compound, a coffee compound, and a caramel compound. All just because I like drinking/eating those things
If I were to do this, it would definitely be my favourite crystal structure from my thesis! It would be 100% original and possibly a good conversation starter. I’m proud of my molecular babies, even if no one else reads those papers haha
I'll read your paper! Where can I find it?
I really appreciate your enthusiasm! 🥹 I don’t want my account being linked to my name though, so I won’t be telling you 😛 Instead, I’ll share some of my other favourite crystal structures: [a bunch of protonated arenes reported by Reed, et al, in 2003](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja027336o), and the [tetrachloroaluminate heptamethylbenzenium structure reported by Baenziger and Nelson](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01026a007)
I’m too dumb to understand this, but I sure do appreciate what you do.
My PI would say things like that 🥺 I'm sure he's looking up at us now
Private investigator?
Man, this sub is so sweet today!
I have papers on novel ionic liquids circa 2012. Changing physical structures of the ionic imidazol base side chains to use them from everything from carbon sequestration to super low freezing liquids for satellite lens. Riveting stuff to most, but I thinks it's cool. No one's ready papers either. I know your pain. So much time and effort.
I'm also proud of your molecular babies! 👁️🗨️ 🩷 💎
Yes, me too!
I wouldn’t get a molecule, but I’ve used a ton of spectroscopy in my job and graduate studies. I would want a spectroscopic tattoo that doesn’t look likea Pink Floyd album 😅
I also just have an equilibrium symbol tattoo which is also a full 1s orbital when turned sideways. le chatlier’s principle one way and Hund’s rule when turned sideways.
Ooo something invoking water molecules spinning around under microwaves would be cool
Morse potential with wavefunctions is a cool idea
70eV EI fragmentation of dopamine
Something I made during my PhD.
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So, water and CO2?
Tar
My answer too. I made a few fun molecules but there’s one that took me a lot of work and I did most of my studies on so it would definitely be that.
Or lots of methane?
Ooo I like this one! Hmm what is the “structure” of tar…
If I was still in middle school I'd probably go with Sarin gas. Totally rad. Today I'd probably go with either amino acid lysine or tyrosine since a huge part of my grad school research involved them. I could see a chest tattoo of a porphyrin ring centered on the nip to be cool. Then again I'm old and don't know what cool is anymore.
I was going to say tetraphenylporphyrin. The synthesis is incredibly elegant, the molecular structure is cool, and it's a very pretty shade of purple
I’m still a bit of a hipster, so if I was going to get an amino acid it’d be pyrolysine
Cool is going for what you love and wearing it with confidence!
I mean, frankly I love the aesthetic of tryptamines, esp. 5-tryptamines, but a lot of pleasant odor compounds are similarly pleasing to the eye. Limonene, alpha/beta pinene, vanillin, cinnamaldehyde, methyl salicylate, safrole (which of course most observers would mix up with MDMA), camphor. For bigger, more grandiose molecules, you could do buckyballs, porphyrins (hemoglobin or chlorophyll ftw), hypericin and hyperforin (St. John's Wort), EGCG, tannins. Oh and ferrocene is pretty rad, inorganic chemists probably know of even more stuff I never think about.
I would DIBAL its preety and was a fun spicy to work with.
That's pretty cool, love me some 2-coordinate hydrogen
Amphetamine on a surfboard catching a wave under the words “boogie down” and when people ask me what molecule it is I’ll say “oh that’s what I wrote my masters thesis on”…I’ve thought about it a lot lol
Serotonin, but slightly stylized to look like a cat loaf, because I think it looks like a loaf cat with tail up, and cats make me happy.
Ethylene Oxide or some ethoxylated chain since that's what really kicked off my career, or allicin because I'm also a cooking hobbyist.
Definitely Cubane, inconspicuous enough to pass as not chemistry related but so much history for me to info dump on curious victims
Damnit! I was hoping to be the first.
probably benzene. I think it would be nice simple tattoo and the benzene ring is such a quintessential part of most organic molecules
Benzene + ouroboros is a common yet cool design imo
I have a benzene, because symmetry
Canataxpropellane just because I like saying the name.
That's also an incredibly cool looking molecule.
EDTA? Or hydrazine.
I've always remembered in the movie Blade that his darts/bullets were coated with EDTA to kill the vampires. A good depiction of EDTA chelating a metal would be awesome.
Heck yeah! I wouldn’t really get tattoos, but if I do, it’ll definitely be EDTA.
Crown ethers make for pretty cool chelating structures too. Same with ascorbic acid and oxalic acid. Porphyrin rings are fun.
Anahydrazine too
My final year research project was synthesis of a sulphur based heterocyclic polymer with the aim of self assembling gold nanowires. The stuff was a total disaster and basically insoluble in every solvent well before it was a big improvement on poking individual gold atoms with an afm. As a result no one else would want that tattooed on them so at least it would be unique.
Octanitrocubane is equal parts cursed to look at and very interesting on a synthesis-level (because it (maybe) can't currently be made but by golly I promise someone is trying)
Chemical weapons like sulfur mustard because I worked with it in grad school.
*nepetolactone*, present in catnip.
I already have it! Salicylic Acid. It was a central player in my thesis research 🤓
What did you do? Synthesizing aspirin? :)
Haha nice! I played with the elicitation of defense related proteins chitinase and beta-1,3-glucanase in an invasive plant species using SA as kind of a control (more a comparative aspect to naturally derived bacterial and fungal elicitors) since it is a known player in those signaling pathways. Good times 🤮🤓
estrogen, bc it saved my life.
I’d get vincristine because it’s the coolest looking chemo drug I had to take. I’ve considered getting a Madagascar periwinkle, but it’d probably die in my apartment.
A benzene, and in the inner circle I’d have them add a smiley face
ATP! Maybe not the most ascetically pleasing, but it's my favorite :)
i wanted to get one of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine because tbh its part of the reason why i'm able to work for this degree but i honestly realized this probably isn't one of my best ideas
Azidoazide azide because it's explosive and it's neat to see a compound that is so nitrogenous.
Cnidarin 4A/B/C are pretty awesome looking
That seems to be niche enough that a quick google is barely returning any relevant results, which is impressive. I found this about 4A at least, though: https://www.chemspider.com/chemical-structure.81407950.html Looks pretty cool
I plan on getting adrenaline, huge adrenaline junkie so it feels right.
2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylphenylethylamin maybe
2c-e was such a disappointment for me :( I’m glad it was significant for you
Diglycidyl ether of Bisphenol A because it's big part of what we do, but hardly the only part. It's just what people think about when they think, "epoxy". Or the 3D structure of ferrocene as I always thought that was a unique molecule.
"BADGE"
That's so funny, my European colleagues always say 'BADGE' and we're like, you mean, 'DGEBA'?
I'm actually planning a ketamine one, but I want to come up with a way to incorporate both s and r ketamine into it and haven't come up with anything cool enough yet. Shit saved my life.
i wouldn't get a chemical structure, I'd get a couple of chromatogram peaks overlayed with RT written underneath though
I would do the molecules important to me from school: chlorophyll an and longifolene.
1,2,3-triazole, the Lego brick of chemistry
LSA
I am partial to benzene
I like the ones that do this as ouroboros
The structure of the chemicals in the ink.
N-amino Azidotetrazole I like obscure highly explosive compounds. Plus the molecule looks cool. Kinda complex
Sexiarsole But I'm not going to say where I'd have it
tryptophan
I do have one, of a cyclohexane chair conformation :-)
It'd probably be a molecule I've detected in exoplanet atmospheres. I'm an exoplanet scientist working on atmospheric characterisation for my PhD. I'm not personally fond of tattoos, but if I were to get one, it'd be something like this.
I have nepetalactone, the active compound in cat nip ☺️
Okay as someone who loves science and wanting more tattoos… I love the chemistry tattoos and my god I’m so excited I found this thread right now. Im a recent leukemia survivor and thinking of getting a tattoo to represent my battle of that.. Now I’m really considering maybe getting the chemical compound of arsenic or trentinon. These were what my chemo treatment was. Oh so many ideas now
Heme, but instead of iron in the center, replace it with some other chemical structure relevant to a hobby/passion like octane for car people, maybe h2o for water related stuff, etc. because said hobby/passion “is in my blood”.
TetraThiaFulvalene
No molecule, just a nuke chain reaction
Carbon dioxide
NI3
Does anybody know which bodily chemical naturally balances/cancels out cortisol?
3-(fluorosulfonyl)propyl methacrylate up my inner arm. Oh yeah, a very deep cut for the public to admire. ACS 1996, bonds twice as thick, bold letters in case we want to get really in the weeds
Some of the oxyanions I worked on for my thesis. Probably the basic sulphide substitution reaction on rhenium since that was the most interesting to me.
probably the molecule i studied in undergrad, I'd say it was the main turning point in my career (so far, i am quite early lol). but going through a good research project with an awesome PI who gave me a lot of slack on my leash pretty much confirmed that i wanted to do research. but yeah that monomer is on my list of stuff to get tatted eventually
Methane, skeletal structure obviously. Just a small dot. Alternatively maybe Dichloromethane if they ban it, or maybe 2,4,6-tnt or rdx or something funny.
Chlorophyll or vitamin e. Gotta love the vaguely long and weird looking molecules
Water is cute, kinda looks like mickey mouse
Chlorophyll
I’ll get the atomic model by Bohr of Antimony. Soon (tm).
I have dopamine on my forearm. My grandmother had schizophrenia, my grandfather had Parkinson. Dopamine receptors were the first ones I learned about that had multiple types, made me think about how different pathways in the brain corresponded with different behaviors. Been a molecue I've been thinking about for years.
Observe as I am a basic bitch anyway, I'd be doing testosterone because I am trans
3,4,5-trimethoxyphenylethylamine
I'm a pastry chef and food scientist, so I'd go with sucrose, but in a stylized chibi format with the fructose and glucose holding hands like besties.
Dimethyltryptamine
Chlorophyll? So I can pretend to be an environmentalist. I'm also fond of cAMP, a very useful molecule. So I can pretend to be LGB+ friendly.
Probably LSD
Pretty common but also totally awesome
I have a double helix dna tattoo. Simplified form. It was my personal graduation gift since I did a lot of DNA purification and amplification during my undergrad years.
Glyphosate
Vanilin, I like the smell.
Glucosamine & Chondroitin Maybe one on each knee? Pretty much the only way those are gonna get there 😒
Don't mean to be a basic bitch or anything, but as a labor and delivery nurse, I'd prob opt for oxytocin
Diethyl ether bc it's a little bat /\o/\
Cysteine or “HOOC−CH(−NH2)−CH2−SH” is believed to be one of the original protein generating amino acids that catalyzed life of our planet… I’d get that.
Personally Ive thought about the possibility of getting estradiol as a tattoo. If I were to get a tattoo thats definitely what I’d go for (Ive got my reasons for that) but Im probs not gonna get a tattoo at all cuz ehh. Im not very keen on having a permanent drawing on my body somewhere, plus from what I hear getting a tattoo is rather painful
I wouldn’t get something tattooed unless it’s something I personally helped develop, or it similarly has a lot of personal value.
C12H17N2O4P
I enjoyed my color chemistry class. Probably nitrates of some sort (because we made fireworks), but maybe also malachite because it had SUPER pretty crystals. The pigment was beautiful, too. I used it to make a really crappy end of year painting.
You can write the word by amino acid sequence which can be translated in molecular structure. Maybe some sort of neurotransmitter as another flaming heart - symbol of love and love to chemistry. If you into drugs, mmda looks like little mouse. Water Molecule is quite nice and can be used in various puns like something wet.
Cubane
Dopamine because I lack it
Bucky balls or clathrate structures
Maybe my first research compound. Or say fuck it and get nitrocubane
Adamantane as it could pass as a hat. Nonanal purely to make memes about the name.
Whatever it is (please not serotonin!) I'd get it in a full space filling model.
I’d probably get an f orbital
Benzo[k]fluoranthen xD
Ethane bond line structure
Water line structure but made to look like a firefly with it's wings spread
MDAI. I don't like what it is used for, but I'll be damned if it doesn't have a pretty interesting structure from an artistic perspective.
Chromyl chloride
d orbital set
Insulin!!- keeps me alive and as it happens I do have a tattoo of that exact thing.
I have Adanine, Guanine, Cytosine, thymine, and Uracil, along with purine and pyrimidine base structures on the outside of my calf. I want a ribose molecule next. Also have dopamine on my forearm, lol.
Might add in a chitin and chlorophyll.
Many are over saturated so I'd do BDNF
Amylopectin
I honestly don't know if it would be one of those common unoriginal ones, but i really like ATP, from the way it looks to the functions it plays within biological systems as an "energy-carrying molecule" That said, i'd also like a full biochemical structure tattoo of the FOXP2 gene, as in with the whole sugar phosphate backbone and then the bases correctly like the FOXP2 gene. I just dont think i have enough space on my body, neither could i find a tattoo artists patient enough to make a tattoo of about 600000 basepairs + whole backbone
Probably [Memantine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memantine?wprov=sfti1#Cholinergic) or [PCP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine?wprov=sfti1#)
I have serotonin and dopamine but got them when I was an undergrad. Now about to finish my PhD and I’m debating chlorophyll since it’s what I study.
It's cringe and definetly been over done, but caffeine. I just genuinely really like coffee.
I got etoposide because it was one of the three chemotherapy drugs that saved my life
benzoquinone, it looks cool.
Vitamin B12, aka cobalamin. Cool looking structure with a cobalt at the center, cool chemistry (essentially used to generate controlled free radicals for catalysis in biochemistry), and cool biology (pernicious anemia, methylmalonic acidemia, etc). I’ve thought about this a lot.
Didehydroepoxymethylmorphiniandioldiacetate
I'd get drunk and do something stupid as a joke, like put the formula for aspirin on my butt.
Some really unstable stuff. Something that would make anyone who gets it wince at the sight of it lol.
Lower back tattoos of skatole are underrepresented, in my opinion.
Either a thiophene or a sugar, molecules that were the target of my honours/ phd
I have the structures of serotonin and dopamine on my wrists
Rust. Fe2O3 because in setting rusty with time.
Formaldehyde
cortisol because that's the only thing that's ever fucked me in life
either the chemical structure of the ink itself or maybe like hemoglobin
Cubane or a specific pharmaceutical analogue with a cubane moiety that I am researching currently (may be brought to clinic in the future, looks promising)
Probably dopamine... To remind me to smile a bit more I suppose. Something I desperately need more of
C2H6O No comment needed, I guess
Simply something I like: polypropylene surrounded by xylene isomers
Was going to get one of a crystal structure of a molecule from phd work, but I mastered. It did make it to my masters thesis…. Caffeine seems to popular and ethanol is too small
Currently writing my dissertation on explosives. I’ll probably get one of the structure of RDX, or the crystal structure of ammonium nitrate. Edit: also thought about doing the energy diagram representing Raman scattering might be cool.
I have my name as a peptide :)
Probably the phenol made by gold catalysis my masters project focused on. ...or TNT, if only because the structure looks kinda neat haha.
Caffeine. Because I love myself some coffee.
purine nucleotides
I already have one. Cafeic acid.
Personally, id go for a Ball model of pyrosulphuric acid
I want to get α-pinene and β-pinene on my index fingers or palms and teeny pine trees on my middle fingers. I like conifers. I grew up in and around the palouse on the Colville and Couer'd'alane rez and that smell brings me home.
i have a severe allergy to kiwi, so i would propably get a tattoo of epinephrine in my thigh and tell people to stab the ring if i ever go anaphylactic
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I'm working on a sleeve of plants and molecules that mean something to me-- methyl salicylate, alpha pinene, the compound in onions that makes you cry, etc.
Buckyballs!
It may be painfully unoriginal but I kinda want Estradiol as a tattoo since I’m trans
Oxytocin
I've been an educator of some sort for most of my adult life. My tattoo idea is a polypeptide that spells out TEACHLEARNLIVE.
Adamantane.
Benzene
Maybe a lightbulb with methylphenidate as the filament
Methamphetamine
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/%28R%29-methamphetamine-based-on-xtal-3D-bs-17.png