Reminds me of this shirt
Love that this one’s caffeine, though! Caffeine is my alcohol
No, the sandwiched carbon forms a double bond with only one of the neighboring nitrogen. Contributes to caffeine’s overall aromaticity, I guess.
Chemically speaking,
Double bonds are inferred from bond length, absorption energy, number of neighboring atoms, and bond angles. it’s fairly valid to represent these with one line as some types of model kits do, as long as you maintain correct angles.
Atoms don’t actually have a color. Most of the time carbon is coded black and oxygen red, and that’s just arbitrary model kit coloring.
I LIKE IT
It’s shirts like this that make me wish I still had the time and money to go to gaming conventions.
Might have to sneak some double bonds in with a fabric marker, but I love this shirt. I just won’t wear it around the other people in the chemistry department.
I think the success of this shirt hinges on the following logic:
People who like chemistry are nerds.
Nerds like roleplaying games.
Therefore people who like chemistry like roleplaying games.
Yep, should be in the Reckoning for a while then.
This is a cute shirt, nice job! I have a similarly-themed coffee mug.
By the way, what happened to Friday’s shirt in The Reckoning?
If you’re gonna do a geek shirt, do it right.
Needs double bonds, different color for oxygen atoms, and the label 120 mg 1,3,7-Trimethylxanthine.
120 mg is roughly the amount in a cup of coffee. 618 micromol would be an acceptable alternative.
Huh - looks like I was using an incorrect model to compare it to:
http://chem242.wikispaces.com/file/view/caffeine.png/62427678/caffeine.png
Thanks for the info!
Look in that shirt’s discussion thread …
Congratulations Naheed! That was an epic battle for 3rd indeed. ^___^
Yup! I’m a girl. Thanks, J5.
So, I think I’ve figured out the way for me to win at derbies is to design coffee related shirts! More coffee for everyone!
Thanks so much to everyone who voted and purchases this shirt. I’m thrilled to see this print!
This is a cute fun shirt, not a cheat sheet for your O-Chem class…let the lack of double bonds alone and accuracy go…we all get the idea behind it…This shirt is adorable. With every true gamer there is always a couple of cans /bottles of Mountain Dews, Rock Stars or whatever can help you make it through the night to beat that ridiculous obscure puzzle in some vampire/undead filled dungeon with a group of non stop adventures Win!
Is it nerdy that pretty much all the people in my life would point out to me the lack of double bonds? Lesson: If you are going to make shirts to appeal to nerds like me, the devil is in the details.
Another coffee shirt… It’s cute, but won’t anyone show some love for those of us that prefer our caffeine cold and carbonated?
Congratulations fishbiscuit5! My sister will love this.
It is a Caffeine molecule, not a coffee molecule. And since the artist didn’t add in an amount you don’t have to be tied down to a specific cup of anything.
Yes…once you understand the coffee, you can rule the work force!
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That wasn’t lava he climbed out of…it was piping hot coffee…
this tee took me back a couple years…
such is the way of trying to come up with new ideas for the tshirt world.
congrats on the print and making it to the top 3.