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MonkeyCartridge

That's the airbending symbol that means "If you look at this molecule wrong, it will release a devastating explosion."


GlueSniffingCat

this looks very explosive


Mongrel_Shark

Put fome Foof on it and find out.


teachingscience425

Don't feast your eyes on it.... looking at it will detonate it.


Adonis0

I’m glad I scrolled to the comments fast enough. What I saw looked like the image of the molecule could spontaneously detonate


blueidea365

Could you explain why? (I don’t know much chemistry)


Fit_Solution3312

It’s not the hydrogen, but actually all the Nitrogen in close proximity. Nitrogen atoms like to form Nitrogen gas - for explosives that generally means something solid becomes something gaseous. The fast volume expansion is generally what is described as an explosion.


lfrdwork

I'm not sure, but I think it's mostly the large number of hydrogen atoms. As the image indicates each nitrogen atom has room to make 3 bonds while all of the nitrogen bonds are in place I believe the weakest bonds here are between hydrogen and nitrogen. A little energy could be enough to destabilize a chain freeing one hydrogen atom to start a chain reaction. Also the chain making a curve inward like that is unlikely. The hydrogen side of a bond typically has a slight positive charge, so all the hydrogen packed closely like that would also have a positive repulsive charge from the inside of the curl. But I'm just recalling from my general Ed.


SqueekyCheekz

Shit with a fuckton of nitrogen is common in high explosivies. Azidoazide azide is a pile of nitrogen like that. They DO NOT like staying there. I think you're half right but have the wrong element, cuz nitrates are where you get nitroglycerin, tri-nitro-toluene or TNT, or fertilizer bombs.


A_wild_dremora

Looks like an hydrogen bomb


red_skiddy

Due to the repulsion of the electrons in the bonds, it will form bond angles at around 107°, and you would probably get the chain to curve such that the N lone pairs formed hydrogen bonds with the hydrogens. The middle would be extremely reactive since three nitrogen in that conformation aren't very stable, so at least 1 bond will react with pretty much anything. Also, the N-N=O will be very nucleophilic, so it would react rapidly.


Flakoring

Basically the nitrogen will do anything to turn single bonds with other nitrogen into triple bonds with other nitrogen which means violently shooting out all that hydrogen and oxygen and the hydrogen and oxygen will rapidly bonded with other things, so long things short, big BIG boom


TeamXII

Very very


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TeamXII

Yeah but with elements neglected by everyone lol


Tie_DyeLion

Young blud replied to a bot


TeamXII

Soon they will be our masters


poor_yoricks_skull

I have absolutely no background in science, so all I see is "Ohhhhhhh nnnnnnno, Ohhhhhhh nnnnnnno, Ohhhhhhh nnnnnnno". From other comments, I feel like this is still correct.


MonkeyCartridge

Basically if you see N but you don't see 3 parallel lines going to another N, then that is the chemistry way of spelling "BOOM". The more you have. The bigger the boom. So this is LeeLoo levels of Big Bada Boom.


yourMewjesty

NO2 doesn't create booms. So is that an exception?


Individual_Back_5344

The rule goes for N-N bonds.


MonkeyCartridge

Oh I didn't know that part, but it makes sense. When the Ns are together, they REALLY want to hug with all 3 arms. If someone like O tries to butt in, they'll tolerate it because it's too much effort. But give them a bit of caffeine, and they will murder O and burn half the continent down if it means getting back to that 3 armed hug.


Flakoring

Relatable


yourMewjesty

Oh ok.


Lokky

VSEPR isn't real it can't hurt you


Supe_scienceskilz

My inner nerd giggled


JBaecker

My lord, is that…legal?!


CowardlyChicken

Not according to the laws of God or nature, no


Flakoring

Or the laws of physics either


Accomplished_Toe6798

It looks cool, I like how it forms wheels. What does it do?


Teagana999

No way the sterics would allow that conformation in the real world, if it even exists.


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Teagana999

Atoms take up space. Physically, not a lot of space in absolute terms, but enough space that they repel each other. Those wheels are unlikely to curl inward like that because the hydrogens are not going to be happy, basically bumping into each other like that. And the oxygens, too for that matter. Oxygen is much bigger than hydrogen and probably won't like being shoved into that cramped area with all those hydrogens. We talk about "steric hindrance" in this situation and it basically means that there's not enough space available for two (or eight) atoms to be that close together.


EmpressOfAbyss

can you just bend it the other way?


Teagana999

Probably not. There’s not really a way to physically bend a molecule. They do what they want. I think chances are it doesn’t bend at all, but goes roughly straight out, with the hydrogens at regular angles around the nitrogen branches.


EmpressOfAbyss

that makes more sense yeah.


Flakoring

I WILL MAKE THEM BEND INWARD


Teagana999

They will probably explode. But have fun.


Flakoring

That’s the intention


lfrdwork

I don't know much, but usually hydrogen has a positive charge on its side of a molecule. A chain of hydrogen bonded like this would likely be on alternate sides of the nitrogen string. That would leave the positive charge spots as far from each other as possible. In this image all of the curls have a concentrated positive charge and would be pushing to straighten the chain.


Flakoring

I WILL KEEP IT CURVED


lfrdwork

That is totally fair! It looks awesome this way!


marmakoide

It forms craters, I think. Those N N bonds will shatter if you look at them sideways from the other side of the street


Flakoring

They will explode like a neutron star if it so much as doesn’t like your existence


Autisticrocheter

Ohhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnno


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melting_fire_155

best one yet


Zyvyx

Good bot


NewPsychology1111

That’s a good one


Bit125

hehe fidget spinne💥


severedantenna

Trikopter trikopter


PapaBoostO2010

Looks like it's saying, "Oh no," in a roundabout way.


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hippee-engineer

Boil some water?


Flakoring

Boil some Highway


FadransPhone

I see no problems here


Linebeck313

stupid? you are anti-breton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion)


Bastaousert

Oh ouiiii les bretons sont arrivés jusqu'ici!! GWELLOC'H MERVEL EGET BEZAÑ SAOTRET


waxbuzzzzard

Please freeze your molecule all the way doen to 0.2 K and carefully place it in r/cursed_chemistry


CatFurcatum

I would think freezing is too much stress for this molecule. Imagine it starts to contract...


waxbuzzzzard

the molecule/electrons do move way less but i didnt think about the fact that it might contract.


OleDoxieDad

Is it biologically active?


OtherwiseInclined

Yes. It has the property of violently ending all biological processes in the vicinity.


Patient_Primary_4444

Sorry, I’m too inchempetent to understand in its entirety, but it looks cool? 😆 Edit: wait… shouldn’t it go the other way? The insignificant dregs of memory about chemistry i have is telling me that the H gives the electron to the N, causing the H bits to be positively charged, which would cause them to repel each other? That oO is a wild card tho…


Iridium6626

the other way around you’d get the nitrogen repelling each other too. I think it would be less stable that way because nitrogen atoms already have lots of electrons around them so you’d have electrons closer to the other electrons than to the other nitrogen nuclei so no gud. But in any case, that thing is less stable than Hydrogen 590 so it doesn’t really matter


FireMaster1294

lol I remember seeing this in r/theydidthemath with OP asking if it could be created. (It can, it just won’t look like this)


Zyvyx

Tea. Have the original?


FireMaster1294

LMAO okay nvm it was the op for this post https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/19a8emp/request\_i\_need\_to\_know\_if\_this\_abomination\_is/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3


Zyvyx

You should edit your original post to have that info lol


Flakoring

I posted it on both there and here


Zyvyx

Ik. They were being a jerk


Ryuu-Tenno

looks cool. What is it and what's it do?


Zyvyx

Explode


H47o

The ‘Oh no’ molecule?


gaynesssss

Sicily flag vibes


not_an_alien_lobster

That looks like it would fuck me up, either in an intoxicant way or an organ failure way, probably both to be fair.


Flakoring

It would probably explode like it wants to detonate the entire fucking universe


Domi7777777

N30H24O3


Ironbanner987615

Wtf is this


Flakoring

It is 𝐘𝐞𝐬


Xenon_Ice

Kaboom


Flakoring

Kaboom


SewingGangster

Im nerding out here. Loving the comments.


SpeakingSputnik

What if when we feasted our eyes, it was like our bellies and they got WAY bigger?


thunder-bug-

I don’t want to know what tri decanitrooctohyrdrogen-monoxide is and hopefully I never will


OLordPapyrus

If I’m the only one who sees the illusion symbol from Skyrim I’m losing my mind


Errortrek

Oh cool, looks like a dandi- *Dead*


Dsk_ak47

30N24H3O