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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by interolivary@beehaw.org to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

The image has a stock photo of a chemist with Samuel L. Jackson's head photoshopped on, and he appears to be looking a graduated cylinder with some colored liquid in it.

Near the bottom there's the text "ah, yes".

Below it are two rows that look like they were copied from the periodic table, with atomic numbers at the top, then the abbreviation in the middle and the full name of the element at the bottom.

The first row of elements is Mo, Th, Er (molybdenum, thorium, erbium)

The second row of elements is F, U, C, K, Er (fluorine, uranium, carbon, potassium, erbium)

edit: corrected term to "atomic number"

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 13 points 1 year ago
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[–] manual3204@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those numbers are the atomic numbers; they indicate how many protons an atom of that element contains.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, thank you. Been a while since high school chemistry and I was too lazy to check just for a meme post 😅

[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Would someone explain me why is "K" the abbreviation of Potassium?

[–] ethd@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia is giving me this:

"Potassium is the chemical element with the symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium)"

[–] CausticFlames@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same reason Lead is "Pb" - from the latin name.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

No, its simply because PB lead me to the jelly!

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Copper gold and silver too

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

As someone who speaks a language in which potassium is "kalium", I want to know how the hell English ended up with potassium

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Because Special K is chock full of potassium!

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago