People familiar with chemistry will notice that the shirt shows an atom with one proton, which is hydrogen.
Hydrogen has one electron, not three as depicted on the shirt.
If you wear the shirt you can find out who knows chemistry and see who the people are who mention that.
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I was about to come here and state the same thing as the other commenter. This particular shirt shows only one proton and 3 electrons. We’re looking at a hypothetical 2- hydrogen ion which–while probably not impossible–is very improbable due to the huge amount of instability shown.
As a chemistry teacher myself, I want to be able to buy things like this to show my geeky side but I can’t false advertise with material like this.
I want to Stay Positive, but this shirt does not depict what it says.
Came here for the same. That’s a non-existent atom. Only hydrogen has one proton. I briefly considered sending a link to this shirt to my PhD chem buddy, but I can’t in good conscience now. He’d take a look and immediately notice this glaring flaw.
If you’re going to make a geeky shirt, at least get the science correct.
Maybe it’s a proton cloud model which assumes the nucleus contains the same number of protons as depicted electrons. In which case it’s Lithium, which is medically used to treat bipolar behavior.
Yeah, even I think that is a bit of a stretch.
Two atoms are talking. One says, “I think that I lost an electron.” The other says, “Are you sure?” The first says, “I’m positive!”
I’m pretty sure this is a Beryllium atom and the artist just used artistic license to depict the 8 protons and neutrons in the nucleus as the atom’s body (1), eyes (2), teeth (4), and tongue (1). He also portrayed the atom part way through the oxidation process, which is why it still has 3 electrons instead of the traditional 2 that form the Be+2 ion. But even midway through oxidation, the atom would still have a positive charge. So the shirt is technically (though artistically) correct. Yeah, I’m gonna go with that.
There must be something wrong with me, bc as a science geek I took it for artistic license and did not try to pick it apart - to each their own though
Imo I don’t want anyone that close to me to try and figure out what (if any) element/compound/etc it depicts anyway
Maybe it’s think positive in a world (atom) of extreme unstable negativity?
This is not a drawing in a science textbook! It’s a cartoon drawing on a t-shirt. It’s a cartoon atom, for goodness sake, so it can have as many protons, electrons, and neutrons as it wants. I repeat. It’s a cartoon.
Does anyone know which element on the Periodic Table of elements has a face (two eyes, a mouth with 4 teeth and a tongue), arms, hands (with opposable thumbs but apparently no fingers), and 3 electrons? Asking for a friend.
Does anyone know which element on the Periodic Table of elements has a face (two eyes, a mouth with 4 teeth and a tongue), arms, hands (with opposable thumbs but apparently no fingers), and 3 electrons?
Dorkium?
I don’t know, but I am certainly enjoying the vestiges of the “old woot” days, in which Wooters nitpicked “impossible” designs. Easel missing a leg? Penguins and polar bears together? Cat with no belly? Sure, why not!
Cats don’t have bellies though.