Meet The Chemiballs: Some* Of The Transition Metals

Meet the Chemiballs: Some* of the Transition Metals

More Chemiballs! This time we’re looking at the Transition Metals. The Transition Metals are that flat bit in the middle of the periodic table. It’s defined as being all the elements that have a “d” orbital as their valence shell, which I’m sure there’s a very immature joke to be made of. But I’m 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; 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. They’re still very energetically reactive, often bursting into flames during chemical reactions. But they’re less likely to outright explode as sodiumball or potassiumball are. 

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Meet the Chemiballs; Earthbreaking Alkaline Earth Metals

Meet the Chemiballs; Earthbreaking Alkaline Earth Metals The Alkaline Earth Metals are a bit like a diet version of the alkali metals. So it

Here's an old article with informative information about Alkaline Earth Metal balls but that's also meant to be funny i guess

Meet the Chemiballs; The Particularly Spooky Subatomic Particles!

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Meet the Chemiballs; The Particularly Spooky Subatomic Particles!

Everything's made of atoms, right? WRONG! Well, they are, but the atoms are made of subatomic particles drawn as cute ball comics.

Read this old blog post of mine where I, a biomajor, tried and failed miserably to understand quantum physics :3

what if we held hands while making evil plans and we were both boys 🥺🥺

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 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 “rare gases”). He made the convention of ending all their names with -on, so you always know when something is a noble gas. (Unless it’s 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 it’s not a perfect system.

The name “noble gasses” is a bit of an early 1900s joke. See, the noble gasses are too lazy to do anything and don’t like bonding with lesser peasant elements. The nobility is also lazy and don’t 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 “trust fund gasses”. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Meet the Chemiballs; the Noble Noble Gases

Are you procrastinating right now? What better way to do that than to read about the laziest elements, the Noble Gases!

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 here’s 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.

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Meet the Chemiballs: the Nuclear Nucleic Acids

A romantic comedy about nucleic acids. The love triangle between Adenine, Thymine, and Uracil. Don't get that in your normal chemistry class

here's an article I wrote a while ago about how they were all named after weird cow bits by weird Germans.