Mad science boy making evil science memes, drawings, and entertraining science articles. Find those on my website-inator https://ravingsofamadscientist.com/ I love science!
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Look at how smol and cute, littol bal
That's because ur scaring him!!! Pillbwugs do air raid drills when they think your on a giant bombing run!!! đ€
GIRLS!!!!!! gather roung. we are looking at this pillbug
Um⊠hey⊠why are you umâŠâŠ evilâŠ?
My doctor said I have this kind of autism, and then my insurance provider said they don't cover the cost of the medication
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder
Greetings fellow mad member of the science community! I hope you have been having a delightfully devilish day today! That's all! - @dr-malcom-practice
I did, yes! Thank you!
I spent the whole day studying calculus because my final is in two days! So, yes, a very devilish day, indeed. The devil has cursed me with endless horrid trials of implicit derivatives and integrals, not unlike that of Sisyphus! I'm slowly losing my mind!
Again!
7: info dumps about the author's obscure special interest
8: contrivances to make the author's obscure special interest be deeply relevant in the world somehow
3 components of worldbuilding:
1. The authorâs kinks
2. The authorâs power fantasy
3. The authorâs political agenda
Plot and logic optional
Omg I love him!!!
Planariannnnn
This was a Patreon Request
CHEMIBALLS???? HELLO... i love that idea so much. reminds me of chemistry cupd (the little dating sim game google came out with valentines that i hyperfixated on for like half a month)
Yeah! I have no idea why it's not more popular. Why are countryballs, planetballs, bioballs, and LGBallT all so big but not chemistry balls? My posts about them haven't been doing well on Tumblr, can't imagine why though.
Funny thing is that I thought I invented the idea of countryballs, but for elements, as I doodled them in my notebook during organic chemistry class, but then I turned out it already existed. (I couldn't find it for a while because I didn't think to search for the name "chemiballs" because why would I?)
There's a small chemiballs community on Reddit I used to be active on (I know, I know) if you want to check that out. https://www.reddit.com/r/chemiball/
what if we held hands while making evil plans and we were both boys đ„șđ„ș
We could be more evil together than we ever were apart.
Wow, that was way too smooth! Anon will be scared away! Um, here's me doing an ahegao!
(nailed it)
Meet the Chemiballs: the Nuclear Nucleic Acids
You probably remember from highschool biology that Nucleic acids are the chemicals that make up DNA, that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, and exactly nothing else.
So hereâs a quick refresher: DNA is made of a chain of nucleotides that come in four(ish) flavors: Adanineball, Thymineball, Guanineball, and Cytocineball. Also Uracilball. They each connect with their loved one in the opposing strand, as DNA is made of a double helix.
Adanineball is a fuckboy who cheats on his girlfriend Thymineball with her quirky chemically unstable twin sister Uracilball, and Guanineball and Cytocineball have a healthy relationship.
Yes, that's exactly how it was in school. They should make a sitcom out of this.
here's an article I wrote a while ago about how they were all named after weird cow bits by weird Germans.
How To Understand Resonance Structures using Cute Balls
There comes a time in every manâs (or woman/nonbinary/other/etc)'s life that they have to learn about resonance structures and delocalized electrons.
Or probably not. I donât think most people know what it is. But youâre going to!
Right now.
No, you donât have a choice in the matter.
![Pentadienyl cation with some very insecure carboCATionballs
(positively charged atoms/molecules are called CATions. Carbonball REALLY doesn't like being a +1 cation, but can tolerate being one third of a furry.[veru scientific{physics isn't voodoo, no siree}])](https://64.media.tumblr.com/6435aa88dc4bbbdbba289ebaa924bbeb/1d39ed985ba14fc1-08/s500x750/7cfb61082c131c829ca0c1351535b31997c34e10.png)
Get all that? Understand now? Of course not, no one does. READ THIS!
ARTICLE I MADE YEARS AGO FOR MORE IN-DEPTH AND FUNNY EXPLANATION!
Meet the Chemiballs; The Particularly Spooky Subatomic Particles!
![W Bosonballs and Z Bosonball being overfed too many tacos by very hospitable Higgs Bosonball (The higgs boson gives the W and Z bosons MASS, which by extension give all [or most?] other matter mass)](https://64.media.tumblr.com/68a054e435301993ee14259100949ff9/69a482e27961dc88-df/s500x750/aa4a5963cc7039ee2aacb4d6000cd1a6a1e63a23.png)
Read this old blog post of mine where I, a biomajor, tried and failed miserably to understand quantum physics :3
Meet the Chemiballs; the Active Actinides
The actinides are famous for being very radioactive and generally not safe to be around. They contain a few elements that are very interesting and important. But also a whole lot of very obscure and boring elements (I didn't draw those).
They are one of the two rows awkwardly separated underneath the periodic table, the other being the Lanthanides (which I have not drawn any of yet, sorry).
Both of these make up the f orbital block (which is to say their valence electrons orbit in a very strange shape). The f block technically should be placed between the transition metals and alkali earth metals. But isnât because that would make the table far too long to fit on the walls of chemistry classrooms.
Meet the Chemiballs: The Metagaming Metalloids!
So you know metals? Theyâre metallic, conductive, and usually form positively charged ions? And you know nonmetals? Theyâre not metallic, insulators, and make negatively charged ions. So yeah, what do you call stuff thatâs like, not one of those two things? Yâknow, semiconductors and shit.
Metals are only metallic because theyâre bad at holding on to their valence electrons, and elements tend to get worse at that the closer they are to the bottom left of the periodic table. Because physics.
But thereâs a stair-shaped boundary line between the two where itâs really hard to decide if theyâre one or the other so we sort of just gave up and called them metalloids. Â
READ MY OLD BLOG IT HAS JOKES AND FUN FACTS ABOUT ELEMENTS AAAAHHH
Meet the Chemiballs; the Noble Noble Gases
The noble gases were all (mostly) discovered by a Scottish man named Sir William Ramsay (Though, back in his day, it was more common to call them ârare gasesâ). He made the convention of ending all their names with -on, so you always know when something is a noble gas. (Unless itâs helium which is a noble gas but follows the metal naming convention, [or iron which ends in -on but is a metal. {Also, scientists seem to really like giving things -on names, like prion, codon, electron, etc. I will admit, it does sound cool. }]) So itâs not a perfect system.
The name ânoble gassesâ is a bit of an early 1900s joke. See, the noble gasses are too lazy to do anything and donât like bonding with lesser peasant elements. The nobility is also lazy and donât like associating with peasants. Of course, we live in an enlightened post-WWI world and no longer recognize barbaric concepts such as hieratical rule and rigid class structures. Also, the Queen is dead. But this is basically the equivalent of naming them âtrust fund gassesâ. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Meet the Chemiballs; Earthbreaking Alkaline Earth Metals
The Alkaline Earth Metals are a bit like a diet version of the alkali metals. Unlike the alkali metals who have one valence electron that they really want to get rid of, alkaline earth metals have two that they sorta dislike having. Theyâre still very energetically reactive, often bursting into flames during chemical reactions. But theyâre less likely to outright explode as sodiumball or potassiumball are.Â
Here's an old article with informative information about Alkaline Earth Metal balls but that's also meant to be funny i guess
Sodium Hydroxide + Hydrochloric Acid
The Hydrogenball ships them.
Meet the Chemiballs; the Explosive Alkali Metals!
The alkali metals are the first group on the periodic table. Their whole thing is; they have some valence electrons, but would rather that not be the case. So they really like to pair up with electronegative elements, like oxygenball, who can take their electrons. Thus allowing the alkali metals to dissolve into solution as cute cation cats (deadbead dads).
A old funny blog article with more EDUTAINING POWER regarding alkalimetalballs.
Comic about Mercuryblob AMALGAMATING Aluminumball
Meet the Chemiballs: Some* of the Transition Metals
More Chemiballs! This time weâre looking at the Transition Metals. The Transition Metals are that flat bit in the middle of the periodic table. Itâs defined as being all the elements that have a âdâ orbital as their valence shell, which Iâm sure thereâs a very immature joke to be made of. But Iâm far too mature and adult to stoop that low. (hehe, Transition metals)
* bruh look, im not gonna draw all the transition metals. have you SEEN a periodic table recently? do you have any idea how many transition metals there are? like, 34 or something. and 90% of them would just be varying shades of gray. i just drew a few cool ones
here's an article I wrote years ago about the transition metals (where the art is from)
Meet the Chemiballs: Halogen Shenanigans
âHalogenâ is a collective name for the elements that fall under fluorine in the periodic table. They all have the naming convention of ending in â-ineâ, so you always know when something is a halogen. Though the same naming convention is used for a lot of random chemicals, like cadaverine or quinine, so itâs not a perfect system.
They're pretty scary chemicalballs 'cause they really like electronballs. Like, they really heckin' like 'em. They'll sell your own mother just to get a sweet sweet taste of that electronegativity.
POV you are being mugged by Flourineball. Hand over your electrons.
Astatineball is horrified as Tennessineball fades away after giving its final message. Astatineball knows it has a 50% chance of being doomed to the same fate in 8.1 hours or so (both elements have very short half-lives)
for more info i guess
Dumb and very esoteric chemiball comic about the mechanism of organic mercury poisoning
Selenium (Se) is a necessary micronutrient. Itâs involved in the amino acid selenocysteine (Sec), which is like cysteine (Cys) but instead of sulfur, itâs selenium. Selenocysteine is involved in selenoenzymes, which are important antioxidants.
Oxidants are highly reactive oxygen radicals that are sometimes accidentally made by the mitochondria. They really like to oxidize and destroy things like proteins, fats, and DNA. As it turns out, we need those things to not be destroyed.
Antioxidants are important because theyâre useless and donât do anything important other than be tempting targets for oxidants. They take the hit so you donât have to. (though knowing biochemistry, Iâm sure that most of them actually do everything, because it would just make too much sense otherwise.)
Organic mercury poisoning is bad because it permanently inhibits your selenoenzymes. This leaves the cell vulnerable to oxidation which is particularly bad for your brain cells.
In this case, methyl mercury (Hg-CH3) has previously bonded to the sulfur in Cysteineball and has now come near the selenocysteine ball.
Fun fact: the covalent binding affinities between mercury and selenium are about A MILLION times greater than with sulfur. Iâm not exaggerating, itâs literally cited as ONE MILLION TIMES GREATER. So yeah, Mercuryblob immediately jumps to seleniumball and basically never lets go.
Sources: Ralston, N. & Azenkeng, Alexander & Raymond, Laura. (2012). Mercury-Dependent Inhibition of Selenoenzymes and Mercury Toxicity. 10.1007/978-1-4614-2383-6_5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278702735_Mercury-Dependent_Inhibition_of_Selenoenzymes_and_Mercury_Toxicity
Ralston NVC, Raymond LJ. Mercuryâs neurotoxicity is characterized by its disruption of selenium biochemistry. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj. 2018 Nov;1862(11):2405-2416. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.05.009. Epub 2018 May 9. PMID: 29753115.
Meet the Chemiballs: the Postal Post Transition Metals
The post transition metals are pretty much what they say on the tin. No, these arenât post-op transgender metals, theyâre the metals that come after the transition metals on the periodic table!
Gallumball has a very low melting point (you can melt it with bodyheat), and molten gallumblob has similar properties to mercuryblob but isn't poisonous!
Tinball getting thanos snapped (tin metal likes to turn to dust when it gets too cold, a phenomenon known as tinpest)
Iâve thought long and hard about how to describe bismuth in a better way than the somewhat mad scientist Tom from Explosions&Fire. But I canât, so Iâm just gonna plagiarize quote him.Â
â[Bismuth] has seen a bit of a revival lately as a bit of a ârelatable icon elementâ because it forms rainbows all the time, doesnât like to be straight, and is incredibly dense. Personally, Iâve always thought of bismuth as lead for people who fear death.â -Tom
here's an article I wrote years ago about the post transition metals (where the art is from)
What?
YOU DARE CHALLENGE MY EVIL???