Interesting / weird Wikipedia articles - /sci/ edition.

[Anonymous No.9069718]

ITT: We post amusing & or intriguing Wikipedia articles that are Science & Math related.

[Anonymous No.9069731]

I saw your deleted thread OP

if you want to link a post on another board you need to include the board name in it and 3 arrows

for example
>>>/po/554963

[Anonymous No.9069734]

>>9069731
t-thanks

[Anonymous No.9069758]

I'll post some interesting chemicals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioacetone

[Anonymous No.9069762]

Warning: I like explosives.

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate

[Anonymous No.9069777]

Nitrogen Triiodide, one of the least stable compounds you can synthesize yourself very easily.

[Anonymous No.9069786]

Fluoroantimonic acid. Strongest acid known, will protonate nearly every known organic substance.

[Anonymous No.9069790]

Heptanitrocubane. Pretty sure you can figure it out by just looking at it, extremely explosive.

[Anonymous No.9069797]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews

[Anonymous No.9069804]

Azidoazide, the least stable compound known, for structurally obvious reasons

[Anonymous No.9069812]

Cyanide Salts. Of course cyanide is extremely poisonous, but it's the reason which is so scary; Your cells are no longer able to respirate, causing death usually from a lack of heart contraction.

[Anonymous No.9069824]

(RS)-Propan-2-yl methylphosphonofluoridate, or Sarin Gas. Sarin gas binds irreversibly to acetylcholine, an extremely important neurotransmitter involved in muscular function. Upon binding, the enzyme which normally regulates acetylcholine can no longer inactivate it, causing death from muscle spasms. Banned chemical agent, of course

[Anonymous No.9069837]

Carbonyl dichloride, or phosgene. Got an old bottle of chloroform around? Probably has phosgene in it.
Its high toxicity arises from the action of the phosgene on the proteins in the pulmonary alveoli, the site of gas exchange: their damage disrupts the blood–air barrier, causing suffocation. Also a banned chemical

[Anonymous No.9070245]

>>9069790
>Not based Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane

[Anonymous No.9070249]

>>9070245
7>6
though that molecular is way more interesting

[Anonymous No.9070253]

>>9070249
molecule*

[Anonymous No.9070324]

>>9069758
Mercedes

>>9069762
Poorly drawn swastika

>>9069777 (checked)
Stick figure handjob at the top of a pyramid

>>9069786
X-Wing next to an explosion

>>9069790
Literally a cube

>>9069804
Levitating man with no legs mows his lawn

>>9069812
Nitrogen uses Carbon as projectiles against the enemy in the Sodium wars

>>9069824
Either an antenna coming out of some guy's massive penis, or an upside-down gymnast performing fillatio on aforementioned guy with massive penis

>>9069837
Side-view of a trebuchet

>>9070245
The back of a birdhouse placed on top of a mirror


Where's my chem degree?

[Anonymous No.9070332]

>>9070324
i fucking laughed so hard, thank you creative anon

[Anonymous No.9070475]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe

[Anonymous No.9070502]

>>9070324
Someone should screencap this.

[Anonymous No.9071093]

>>9069762
I'll see your Pentaerythritol tetranitrate,
and raise you an o

[Anonymous No.9071094]

>>9069758
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioacetone
>Recently we found ourselves with an odour problem beyond our worst expectations. During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards away. Two of our chemists who had done no more than investigate the cracking of minute amounts of trithioacetone found themselves the object of hostile stares in a restaurant and suffered the humiliation of having a waitress spray the area around them with a deodorant. The odours defied the expected effects of dilution since workers in the laboratory did not find the odours intolerable … and genuinely denied responsibility since they were working in closed systems. To convince them otherwise, they were dispersed with other observers around the laboratory, at distances up to a quarter of a mile, and one drop of either acetone gem-dithiol or the mother liquors from crude trithioacetone crystallisations were placed on a watch glass in a fume cupboard. The odour was detected downwind in seconds.

Epic.

[Anonymous No.9071145]

>>9069758
I too browse reddit.

[Anonymous No.9071288]

someone posted this long ago which I found interesting; essentially a cancer from a species of dog has become its own species. There is a theory that cancers should be regarded as seperate species as they genetically differ/change from their host, granted overtime the difference becomes so great you get instances like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor

"Although the genome of a CTVT is derived from a canid (probably a dog, wolf or coyote), it is now essentially living as a unicellular, asexually reproducing (but sexually transmitted) pathogen"

[Anonymous No.9071616]

>>9071145
most of these are from an old list of either banned or dangerous chemicals i had saved.
>>9071288
HeLa cells are the same thing, originally a very aggressive cervical tumor but now are so genetically different people are talking about classifying them as it's own species

[Anonymous No.9071694]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_paradox

[Anonymous No.9072953]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethylmethane

[Anonymous No.9072961]

>>9072953
>inb4 "is C9H20 /our chemical compound/?"

[Anonymous No.9073013]

>>9072953
>el oh el it looks like a swastika XD
>el oh el gas the jews XD
Am I edgy enough for 4chin yet guys?

[Anonymous No.9073029]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite

[Anonymous No.9073371]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride

>It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water — with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals — steel, copper, aluminum, etc. — because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

[Anonymous No.9073629]

>>9070502
1. Its mildy entertaining at best.
2. Its fucking one key on your keyboard. It took more keystrokes to type that than it would have to actually do it.
3. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.9073639]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbral_calculus

[Anonymous No.9073887]

>>9073371
>ignites with contact with asbestos, sand, and water
alrighty then

[Anonymous No.9073894]

>>9073639
Steven Roman has a textbook on that and also he has video lectures on cat theory and group theory. Check them out anons or he'll close it down

[Anonymous No.9074279]

>>9073894
>cat theory
Please tell more. Like does this build upon the dog hypothesis?

[Anonymous No.9075131]

>>9073639
this made me laugh harder than anything else today

[Anonymous No.9075974]

>derivative is zero everywhere
>function is still obviously increasing
what fucking sorcery is this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_function