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: 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.

Meet the Chemiballs: Halogen Shenanigans

“Halogen” is a collective name for the elements that fall under fluorine in the periodic table. They all have the naming convention of ending in “-ine”, 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 it’s 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)

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Meet the Chemiballs: Halogen Shenanigans

Learn about the Halogens in the form of cute ball drawings and jokes from a Mad Scientist.

for more info i guess

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 isn’t because that would make the table far too long to fit on the walls of chemistry classrooms.

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Meet the Chemiballs; the Active Actinides

Did you know that Uraniumball is not the only radioactive element people use to make energy or warcrimes? There's a whole buncha them!

Comic about Mercuryblob AMALGAMATING Aluminumball

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