Fixed the charge on your 3-methyl-3,4,5,5,6-pentaethyl-6-butan-2-yl decane ion, aka lossane.
(It’s been a while since I last did chemistry, so apologies if I messed up the nomenclature a bit)
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hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
SARGE@startrek.website 1 week ago
As someone who paid enough attention in highschool chemistry to get a B, and occasionally watches Nile(red/blue) and E&I videos… I know some of these words/symbols!
sga@lemmy.world 6 days ago
actually we start numbering by minimising the number of highest order addition, which is the isobutyl, if it gets same number regardless, then we try to minimise the sum of numbers, so i think it should be called
5-(isobutyl)-5,6,6,7,8-penta-ethyl-8-methyl-decane (I am assuming hydrogen’s are present, just not represented, because that usually is the case)
I may alo be wrong here, it has been 4 years since I have been required to do nomenclature myself
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Ah, my chemistry department taught me the other way around. I distinctly remember the phrase “methyl-ethyl” being thrown around a bit. Additionaly, we were taught to be more specific about isomers, hence me using butan-2-yl instead of isobutyl.
Then again, scientists often disagree strongly about things like this, so we could both be right. Also, there’s a good chance this is just the A-Level specification being weird. I left my old textbook at my student flat, though, so I won’t be able to check for a couple of weeks.
I could also be downright wrong myself.
As for the hydrogens, I had assumed they were not present, and that this lossane molecule is an ion with a charge of -50. This is borderline impossible to achieve in real life, of course.
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 days ago
Any idea what a molecule like that would be useful for?
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Fuel? Hydrocarbons like that are quite combustible.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
So … What does this chemical make you lose?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Sanity
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The game
riskable@programming.dev 1 week ago
Your marbles.
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You lose nothing, don’t worry about it.
On the other hand, you learn C (the programming language) by ingesting it, which would be considered a punishment by some.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
It makes you lose your way in a vast endless c
Ziglin@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Positive thoughts and other particles with a positive charge.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Assuming this has a 47 hydrogens stuck on to make it stable, I’d call it:
3-methyl-3,4,5,5,6-pentaethyl-6-buta-2-yl dodecane
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
dodecane has a 12 carbon chain. The longest chain here is 10 carbons, which would be decane.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Good catch.
Sedathems@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I am a total chem nitwit, would you like to explain me how you come to this ?
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It basically comes down to finding the longest chain of carbons, then you number each of the carbons on that chain and list off things that are attached to that carbon. For example, 1 carbon = methyl, 2 carbons = ethyl, etc.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Couldn’t resist. In a more standard form this molecule should (I believe—chemistry has been a long time ago) look like this:
Made with MolView –molview.org/?smiles=C([C%40](CC)(C)C(CC)[C%40](CC…
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
If I ever teach chemistry to kids imma tell them to name this
AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Change/Invert the steric centers at 3 & 6 and it should be fine.
technohacker@programming.dev 1 week ago
(1,2,2,50)-loss-quinquagintinane
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The urge to add hydrogens to all the carbons not fully bonded is overwhelming
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I somehow recognized it immediately. I think this meme has rewritten my brain.
buttwater@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Ah ok so it’s Loss got it
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
My stoned ass thought this was a shifter tree diagram of a goofy little manual transmission for a sec. All gears are just ‘crash’, lol
don@lemm.ee 6 days ago
…is this gain?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can someone explain this to me? I don’t get it, but I want to.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 1 week ago
gravistar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
GOD DAMNIT!
AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 week ago
I’m at a loss
NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
3-metilhexa-4,5,5,6,7,7-etil-4-butil From the head, im feel happy now
burgermeister@lemm.ee 1 week ago
OK how long until it kicks in?
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
a few years and then you die of cancer
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 week ago
*Cccccccccccccccccccccccccancer
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh by fucking gods. It’s loss. People are STILL posting loss. And here I was thinking this was a chemistry meme.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Personally I can’t wait for this meme to be dead and forgotten
Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yeah, me too. I’ve never even read the webcomic. Can we please just forget about it already?
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Like that baby
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
*Lossane
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lossium.
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 days ago
Carbonated loss