Unstable

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who you callin a HO?

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• flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Holy crap that burn looks bad - i hope its mostly edited.

  Anyway, can someone explain this for a normie?

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think it’s saying that estrogen has more double carbon bonds, so it’s more stable as a molecule

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    • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It has basically an entire benzene ring, one of the most stable structures in chemistry.

      That’s an overstatement, but it is extremely stable compared to most things in solution.

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cheers

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  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In organic chemistry, there’s a concept called delocalized pi orbitals. The exact reason why it works is complicated and outside the scope of organic chemistry, so I’m not sure if I can really explain it anyways. But the takeaway is that when you see a double bond, single bond, double bond pattern, that generally indicates that the bonds are actually being shared across the entire motif. ie, it’s not really a double bond, it’s more like… a 1.5-bond.

    Having the bonds be shared across multiple atoms gives that region of the molecule special properties, the primary of which is that it tends to be really stable. The reason for that is that any disruption toward that region (eg, adding an electron) gets distributed across the motif, so that each atom is only minorly disturbed.

    And the bigger the motif is, the more stable the region is because it’s able to distribute disturbances better.

    Benzene (the hexagon motif circled) is made exclusively of this double bond, single bond, double bond motif. And as a result, it’s well known for being extremely difficult to modify or destroy. You really have to jump through hoops to do any sort of organic chemistry with benzenes. The motif circled in testosterone still has delocalized pi orbitals, but it’s not as extensive as a benzene, and so it’s less stable

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks! That’s concise and really interesting

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  • neatobuilds@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Something about boats and hos

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I like to hoboat my motors, for sure

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  • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh man, the lower half of this image was everywhere ten odd years ago. Or maybe longer. Shit.

    It’s just “Oooooh, burn!” in a sarcastically distant tone. Almost like it’s a daily occurrence.

    I never quite liked it even if it looks very fake. The particular stab at humor it went for didn’t really do it for me.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cold is water is the opposite of what you want to put on a burn. Blisters are a reaction to the rapid change in temperature not the heat.

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  • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, you definitely don’t want to put hot water on a burn.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Depending on the severity and type of the burn, and the amount of time that has passed (ideally none), actually yes you would.

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• Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People thinking gender is what to measure stability with instead of hair colour /s

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• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I never knew that estrogen and testosterone are so similar. I also didn’t know that there is not one estrogen molecule, but that estrogens are a molecule class.

  Thanks, OP!

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• kerrigan778@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The superiority of benzene rings cannot be denied

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• RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Women really are more aromatic…

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would have included the double-bonded oxygen in the circle, but yeah.

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• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Benzene is OP and I love that for it

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is next level because only Charles Murray stans could be persuaded that molecular bonds imply emotional strength.

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