6150th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 8)

I don’t like low quality ice cream and there’s a lot of it out there and very cheap lots of ice cream is >>>rand mediocre

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My classmates and I have been talking about how we really want orgo themed anime girls to memorise the different things we must memorise

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orgogonal (they are 90 degrees apart)

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I can’t tell if this is the worst idea I’ve ever heard, or the best idea I’ve ever heard

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Look if the traits of SN1 and SN2 reactions were somehow personified into two contrasting anime girls I just feel I’d have an easier time remembering them and all

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Somehow nobody’s made this on the internet AFAICT

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Wikitan nooooooooooooooooo

That’s a mascot, not a mnemonic.

The Wikipedia example problematic ship

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sn1 vs sn2 is something that comes up all the time and that you would think i have memorized. and yet

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why is sn2 the one that takes one step and sn1 the one that takes two steps! that’s all i know about them but why are those fuckers like this

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new kendrick drop while the sun is high in the sky without warning

what the fuck

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SN2 involves two molecules at the rate-limiting step while SN1 only involves one

number of steps seems more important to me than number of molecules! unfortunately chem people are insane

Number of molecules at the rate limiting step determines whether you can make it go faster by increasing the concentration of the nucleophile

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hm it seems like you have a good understanding of sn1 and sn2. go make the anime girl image

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SN1 is first order and SN2 is second order