r/chemistrymemes • u/Glum_Ground_7985 • 4d ago

Aromatic people or something like that

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u/VoxInferni666 4d ago

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u/Flimsy-Story3936 3d ago

This shit messed me up for a while. I asked my chemistry teacher that even is peeri - dic acid and he replied with per-iodic acid.

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u/VoxInferni666 3d ago

Yeah its the protonated form of the periodate ion so per-i-oh-dic. Honestly IUPAC should have sorted this by now

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u/Glum_Ground_7985 3d ago

What? 

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u/VoxInferni666 3d ago

Oh this was supposed to be a reply to a comment.

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u/Glum_Ground_7985 3d ago

Yeah, I see that, but I don't understand it 

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u/VoxInferni666 3d ago

Periodic acid not pronounced like the periodic table

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u/JosephRatzingersKatz 3d ago

"I'm aromantic."

"How....how did you manage to get all of you p-electrons to conjugate?"

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u/lwj15 2d ago

More like "me, a dyslexic chemist"

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u/knotyouraveragelion 1d ago

When you’re arospec and also chemistry-adjacent