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!

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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!

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!

(waiting in baited breath for mah boi chromium)

RAINBOW CHROMIUMBALL!

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: 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

What?

YOU DARE CHALLENGE MY EVIL???