How To Understand Resonance Structures Using Cute Balls

How To Understand Resonance Structures using Cute Balls

There comes a time in every man’s (or woman/nonbinary/other/etc)'s life that they have to learn about resonance structures and delocalized electrons.

Or probably not. I don’t think most people know what it is. But you’re going to!

Right now.

No, you don’t have a choice in the matter.

Get all that? Understand now? Of course not, no one does. READ THIS!

Ravings of a Mad Scientist

How To Understand Resonance Structures using Cute Balls

Taking an Organic Chemistry Class and don't understand anything? Just curious? Just plain masochistic? Read here for all your confusing elec

ARTICLE I MADE YEARS AGO FOR MORE IN-DEPTH AND FUNNY EXPLANATION!

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Meet the Chemiballs: The Metagaming Metalloids!

So you know metals? They’re metallic, conductive, and usually form positively charged ions? And you know nonmetals? They’re not metallic, insulators, and make negatively charged ions. So yeah, what do you call stuff that’s like, not one of those two things? Y’know, semiconductors and shit.

Metals are only metallic because they’re 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 there’s a stair-shaped boundary line between the two where it’s really hard to decide if they’re one or the other so we sort of just gave up and called them metalloids.  

Ravings of a Mad Scientist

Meet the Chemiballs: The Metagaming Metalloids!

Metalloids! They're like metals, but loids! We've got all of 'em; boron, silicon, arsenic, some other ones. Yeah!

READ MY OLD BLOG IT HAS JOKES AND FUN FACTS ABOUT ELEMENTS AAAAHHH

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)

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)

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/