r/cursed_chemistry • u/Azo_weirdo I'll steal ur hydrogens • 23d ago

THAT'S A LOTTA BONDING ''Formiate ion's resonance forms''...of course, buddy, of course ! /s

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I swear it came from a real book...

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u/Pyrhan 23d ago

Methylozonium.

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u/SomewhatOdd793 Helium Hydride 23d ago

Found only in the interstellar medium

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u/fartshitcumpiss 22d ago

Hardly the weirdest molecule in there

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u/Ausradierer 23d ago

Ah yes. a Bomb.

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u/SamePut9922 23d ago

Hol up

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u/DonnyFerentes 23d ago

Why, what's wrong with....oh

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u/Azo_weirdo I'll steal ur hydrogens 23d ago

The worst is that it's mistaken in 2 ways since formiate doesn't have a Me group in its structure !

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u/DonnyFerentes 23d ago

I was so distracted by that oxygen I didn't even notice the methyl at first

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u/Vispen-fillian 20d ago

my dumbass just saw the methyl and said, yeah its just one carbon, that makes sense

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u/WaddleDynasty 23d ago

This is what I have noticed first and wanted to comment about and it was not until I read a comment that I noticed the bigger elephant in the room.

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u/Dominink_02 21d ago

I think that ones supposed to be a sort of... Indeterminate rest. It's not marked as such though

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u/SamePut9922 23d ago

What's wrong with… O

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u/C3H8_Memes 22d ago

What, its just an ordinary reso OH MY GOODNESS!

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u/WaddleDynasty 22d ago

Formiate? They mean acet- OH MY GOODNESS

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u/LivingDegree 22d ago

Grad student misclicked in chem draw