*The Periodic Table according to Michael Jackson
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Does that decay into SHeMoNa?
Edit. Corrected my bad mixed up spelling
Ah yes, oxygen, my favourite metal
Can’t make fire without oxygen. That’s pretty metal 🤟
Can’t make fire without oxygen
Fluorine fires have entered the chat.
Fluorine fires have entered the chat.
Oh shit, someone call the fluorine fire department to save the chat!
call the fluorine fire department
Sometimes there is no such department, especially for the most vigorous fluorinating reagents like chlorine trifluoride: Sand Won’t Save You This Time (Derek Lowe)
it can potentially go on to “burn” things that you would normally consider already burnt to hell and gone, and a practical consequence of that is that it’ll start roaring reactions with things like bricks and asbestos tile.
Yeah, that’s a big fat nope from me 😬
You think that’s air you’re breathing now?
Matrix missed a great chance at an awesome unrealistic underwater flight scene.
It sticks to a magnet, that means metal right?
I’m confused, that’s just a normal periodic table.
Found the astronomer.
what? no, a normal periodic table has oxygen and carbon too!
Found the organic chemist
i mean, i think most chemists are organic
few are free range though
Plutonium is not a real element.
What about metallic hydrogen in the core of planets?
Funnily enough, probably not a metal according to astronomers.
Iodine is a transition metal I will die on this hill.
Care to defend your position? Iodine is certainly not in the d-block…
The intended joke is that hypervalent iodine compounds like Dess-Martin periodinane flip between different oxidation states like you often see for transition metals. As an example, the mechanism usually drawn for oxidations by DMP is similar to those drawn for PCC/Jones reagent, where the electrons removed from the substrate are “banked” at the metal center. Obviously, redox chemistry is not at all limited to transition metals, but I am often surprised at iodine’s propensity to engage in it. A lot of research over the past decade or two has also developed redox catalysis with these reagents, reactivity which is commonly (though again not always) the purview of transition metals.
yOu aRe MadE oF sTardUst
And if you ask a cosmologist what the universe is made of, they go “Well, there’s a lot of dark matter, and even more dark energy. And then there’s a tiny bit of some matter or something idk lol.”
Read that as cosmetologist and was thoroughly confused.
\m/
That’s because these two account for something like 99% of all normal matter in the universe
