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Does it turn out to be apple pie?

i was hoping for a gif with horizontal scrolling

Bound by forces that may be weaker than those in chemistry

Wait, there's less than a mole of Americium? Didn't we use that for manufacturing smoke detectors? It can't have a half life that short, can it?

Really started alphabetizing… How many isomers are there?

Smart move leaving the ionisation state out of frame.

I wanna see the whole thing in order from estimated most to least now

We found our philosopher

www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

This is a recipe for trouble...

Presumably you actually mean the observable universe, not the entire universe. ...unless you know something we don't?

Don't underestimate the power of powers!

Chemically correct. Dynamically optimistic.

The universe as a single molecule is the ultimate edge case for chemistry software. I wonder what happens when you try to compute its molecular weight—does the answer just return "yes"?

Im in this one!

feels like this implies the IUPAC has assigned a chemical element name to whatever constitutes the innards of black holes. Squeezium?

H_10^80He_10^79 and the rest is negligible.

Drake equation, eat your heart out.

completely missed that lol, But He where?

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Just like you'd do with antimatter particles: you put a bar over its symbol

Only ten times as much Carbon as either Argon or Aluminium? Really? <Scratches head>

Chemists often represent intermediate compounds in reactions, many with free radicals, of course.

Especially if it was in Lehrer's Elemental Order

How do you write the neutronium sidechain? Is the whole thing a zwitterion?

and I would so buy it

tough to synthesize, but i believe in you, randall!

This is gonna explode sooner or later. Or implode. Inconclusive.

I don't think there's that much Astatine in it

This to that tune of someone singing the long Maori place name in New Zeland

Hydrogen (n.) — An odorless, colorless gas which, given time, turns into [webcomics].

It’s already blown up once.

Strong-weak ligands. *nods* Those metal structures really create weird things in the cloud.

it's like there's some king of... weak force