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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And here's me, mixing up hydrocarbons and carbohydrates.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

one is food for animals, the other is food for cars

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes, but which is which? Nothing in the name tells me whether it has oxygen in its chemical composition.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, you might've heard foods with carbohydrates are sometimes referred to by the abbreviation “carbs". If you know carbs are food, it's obvious the word starting in "carb-" is the edible one.

If you weren't familiar with that abbreviation, here's another memory helper: Spaghetti carbonara contains carbs.

If you're also not familiar with spaghetti carbonara, I'm very sorry for you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But spaghetti also needs water so wouldn't that make it a hydrocarbonara?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Aye, I stand defeated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Or a carbonarahydrate?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't cars have carborators? Are carborators edible?

I don't know anything about cars except they go vroom. I know even less about chemistry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I have never heard of anyone eating a carburetor and dying, so we have to assume it's safe to eat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Carbohydrates are the ones with (H20)n

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To hydrate means to add water. Hence a hydrate has OH2 added.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

More generally, -ate itself means 'with oxygen'.

Carbonate = carbon + oxygen

Nitrate = nitrogen + oxygen

Phosphate = phosphorus + oxygen

There is apparently some nuance but it is a good rule to remember: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/32962/when-to-use-ate-and-ite-for-naming-oxyanions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oooohhhh, nice!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
  • pentane
  • 2 methyl butane
  • 2,2 dimethyl propane

what else?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] you got splainin to do :D

you probably meant C6H12?

  • hexane
  • 2-methylpentane
  • 3-methylpentane
  • 2,2-methylbutane
  • 2,3-methylbutane
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I gotta bring this up when I see the chemical bois putting those numbers up. https://youtube.com/shorts/ytXnW-qgaMg

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

meth, eth and prop.

~~anol and ane.~~

~~There's six right there.~~

edit 0 : I'm wrong, anols need alcohol and hydrocarbons are things with JUST hydrogen and carbon, not any organic hydrogen carbon compound.

edit 1 : butane ..... nylon?

edit 2 : not nylon...shit...

edit 3: heptane? I thought about pentante but thought against it because of propane, hexane is in the post above...

edit 4 : yeah! Mr white, science, bitch! I haven't been to chemistry class for about 20 years, so it took me a while.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

-anol would require an oxygen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

damn. you're right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

the OP meme is plain wrong btw. They likely meant C6H14. or C5H10 with some very contorted molecules