3w ago

iykyk

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Oh by fucking gods. It's loss. People are STILL posting loss. And here I was thinking this was a chemistry meme.
- *Lossane
  
  Lossium.
- Personally I can't wait for this meme to be dead and forgotten
  
  Yeah, me too. I've never even read the webcomic. Can we please just forget about it already?
  
  Like that baby
- Carbonated loss

Fixed the charge on your 3-methyl-3,4,5,5,6-pentaethyl-6-butan-2-yl decane ion, aka lossane.
(It's been a while since I last did chemistry, so apologies if I messed up the nomenclature a bit)
- As someone who paid enough attention in highschool chemistry to get a B, and occasionally watches Nile(red/blue) and E&I videos.... I know some of these words/symbols!
- actually we start numbering by minimising the number of highest order addition, which is the isobutyl, if it gets same number regardless, then we try to minimise the sum of numbers, so i think it should be called
  5-(isobutyl)-5,6,6,7,8-penta-ethyl-8-methyl-decane (I am assuming hydrogen's are present, just not represented, because that usually is the case)
  I may alo be wrong here, it has been 4 years since I have been required to do nomenclature myself
  
  Ah, my chemistry department taught me the other way around. I distinctly remember the phrase "methyl-ethyl" being thrown around a bit. Additionaly, we were taught to be more specific about isomers, hence me using butan-2-yl instead of isobutyl.
  Then again, scientists often disagree strongly about things like this, so we could both be right. Also, there's a good chance this is just the A-Level specification being weird. I left my old textbook at my student flat, though, so I won't be able to check for a couple of weeks.
  I could also be downright wrong myself.
  As for the hydrogens, I had assumed they were not present, and that this lossane molecule is an ion with a charge of -50. This is borderline impossible to achieve in real life, of course.
- Any idea what a molecule like that would be useful for?

So ... What does this chemical make you lose?
- Sanity
- Your marbles.
- The game
- You lose nothing, don't worry about it.
  On the other hand, you learn C (the programming language) by ingesting it, which would be considered a punishment by some.
- It makes you lose your way in a vast endless c
- Positive thoughts and other particles with a positive charge.

Assuming this has a 47 hydrogens stuck on to make it stable, I'd call it:
3-methyl-3,4,5,5,6-pentaethyl-6-buta-2-yl decane
- dodecane has a 12 carbon chain. The longest chain here is 10 carbons, which would be decane.
  
  Good catch.
- I am a total chem nitwit, would you like to explain me how you come to this ?
  
  It basically comes down to finding the longest chain of carbons, then you number each of the carbons on that chain and list off things that are attached to each of them. For example, 1 carbon = methyl, 2 carbons = ethyl, etc.