Chemical dance party!

[nonelvis]

One of the greatest (and geekiest) things I have ever seen.

(Found in the comments of today's Fandom Secrets, which included an awesome chemistry geek secret.)

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[columbina.livejournal.com]

That chart in the secret has quite a few things wrong. I speculated on this extensively in chemistry class (because I was just that kind of woolgatherer), and it's the highly electronegative, ionic-bonding folks over in 16 and 17 who are the sort of controlling partners that demand absolute exclusivity. Sure, chlorine's an evil bitch and she likes to love them and squeeze them raw and leave them, but god help sodium if *he* decides to fool around; there is no reciprocity. Chlorine and fluorine are very manipulative.

And to describe hydrogen as a slut is not accurate at all. What hydrogen really is is a dupe; he gets into all sorts of relationships indiscriminately, and regrets many of them later, but never learns. Once in a great while he will explode on you if you push him too far. Then next week, it's back to the whipping post.

Oxygen is fickle; you have to watch out for her volatility. She makes and breaks relationships very fast, but no one ever really expects any sort of strong commitment from her; they know what they're getting into.

Carbon gets along with everyone and has the sort of stable relationships that everyone envies when theirs go sour, but he's also kind of boring and everyone knows it. Still, he's not as bad as the heavy metals, many of whom are the sort of males who never find good relationships and never realize why it's their own damned fault, and grow increasingly toxic about it. Some go past toxic all the way into radioactive.

[nonelvis]

I want to marry you all over again.