• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I’m not sure why it bothers me that they didn’t use the actual periodic table and replace one element for the joke. Instead it’s all jumbled and misnumbered.

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      3 months ago

      Well it seems lazy. And I think elements of accurate realness in contrast to the twist in a cartoon make it funnier.

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      3 months ago

      It looks pretty much right to me. Though hydrogen is sitting on top of fluorine for some reason and there appears to be a box in hydrogen’s normal spot, but maybe it’s to emphasize the chemical similarities between hydrogen and that column as well as the column it’s usually shown in. The numbers are hard to read and I didn’t look anything up to verify, but they look correct from what I can see, if a bit less clear than most for how the actinium and lanthanum series fit in.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        Oh yeah I see what you mean, like they cut the noble gases out of the shot, moved hydrogen to the right, and just left a blank box for where hydrogen should be? A lot of the text is to hard to read the atomic weights or anything, but I’m sure that would be nit picky haha