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
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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.
…is this gain?
Oh by fucking gods. It's loss. People are STILL posting loss. And here I was thinking this was a chemistry meme.
Personally I can't wait for this meme to be dead and forgotten
Like that baby
Yeah, me too. I've never even read the webcomic. Can we please just forget about it already?
Loss will live until the last soulless, inspiration destitute and desperately unfunny aging millennial dies a miserable and ugly death.
*Lossane
Lossium.
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)
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
Any idea what a molecule like that would be useful for?
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!
So ... What does this chemical make you lose?
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.
Positive thoughts and other particles with a positive charge.
Sanity
Your marbles.
It makes you lose your way in a vast endless c
Couldn’t resist. In a more standard form this molecule should (I believe—chemistry has been a long time ago) look like this:
Made with MolView –https://molview.org/?smiles=C%28%5BC%40%5D%28CC%29%28C%29C%28CC%29%5BC%40%5D%28CC%29%28CC%29%5BC%40%40%5D%28C%28C%29C%29%28CC%29CCCC%29C
People knowledgeable in chemistry, please correct!
Change/Invert the steric centers at 3 or 6 and it should be fine.
If I ever teach chemistry to kids imma tell them to name this
(1,2,2,50)-loss-quinquagintinane
I somehow recognized it immediately. I think this meme has rewritten my brain.
Ah ok so it's Loss got it
The urge to add hydrogens to all the carbons not fully bonded is overwhelming
My stoned ass thought this was a shifter tree diagram of a goofy little manual transmission for a sec. All gears are just 'crash', lol
Can someone explain this to me? I don’t get it, but I want to.
I'm at a loss
OK how long until it kicks in?
a few years and then you die of cancer
*Cccccccccccccccccccccccccancer
3-metilhexa-4,5,5,6,7,7-etil-4-butil From the head, im feel happy now