Which Chemical has the Worst Abbreviation?

[@Schadowofmorning]

Ofcourse DOTA has something to do with cancer. what else.

[@NebulonRanger]

The joke writes itself.

[@ApusApus]

Interestingly it isn't carcinogenic, it's just an indicator (seeker? you know what I mean)

[@NebulonRanger]

@@ApusApus It being an indicator in the general vicinity of cancer just makes the name even funnier lol

[@chaken6187]

Lol

[@ryanharris7891]

Spat my water everywhere 😆 🤣 😂

[@mikko-pekkaleppanen3761]

The Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS) calls DEAD with the abbreviation DAD, and has this sentence "DAD has been reported to occasionally decompose violently when heated"

[@That_Chemist]

lmao

[@andruloni]

now I imagine a decomposing heated DEADCAT

[@Flesh_Wizard]

My dad also decomposes violently when heated

[@ಠಎಠ]

yeah DAD's been pretty sensitive since he came home from work early to find MOM getting chlorinated

[@Litepaw]

​@@ಠಎಠunderrated reply

[@thomasdavis8117]

It's morbin' time in Geology where mid ocean ridge basalt is shortened to morb.

[@hurgcat]

my favorite part was when the volcanic ridge morbed all over the ocean floor

[@Chomuggaacapri]

I’m a bio major, and for my group lab project this semester we chose to work with bacterial resistance to antibiotics derived from spices. We had a control - Rifampicin (RIF) - as well as Cinnamaldehyde (CIN) and Cuminaldehyde. We’ve had to avoid abbreviating Cuminaldehyde in our final write-ups, as its abbreviation is generated in the same way as the other two. In doing our preliminary research, we found several papers discussing the properties of Cuminaldehyde, such as its molecular Docking and applications in Sauced Beef, all of which prolifically used the abbreviation. Many a giggle has been had over the course of this semester.

[@milesmccollough5507]

ohhhhh my god but that’s so horrifically funny.

[@japanpanda2179]

Why can't you just abbreviate it as CUA or CMA or something like that? Is CUM actually its standard abbreviation?

[@Chomuggaacapri]

@@japanpanda2179 Yes, CUM is the genuine standard abbreviation

[@nibblrrr7124]

makes me wanna cuminaldehyde. if ur cuminaldehyde, better get that checked out by a doctor. (I thought everyone pronounced the spice plant _k(y)OO-min,_ but apparently some dictionaries straight up list _kUHm-in_ as well...?)

[@japanpanda2179]

@@nibblrrr7124 I pronounce it somewhere in between, as "COO-min", but "KYOO-min" actually makes more sense

[@katiefrisk980]

You missed your opportunity to say that DEADCAT is Schrödinger’s favorite chemical.

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

Actually, We Don't Know If His Favourite Is DEADCAT Or ALIVECAT.

[@That_Chemist]

Truuuue

[@ZXNovaBoom]

@@AssistantCoreAQI Aluminum, Iodine, Vanadium, and there does not seem to be an element that is Ve or E.

[@andrewbounds]

@@ZXNovaBoom I use Electron for e, best we can do.

[@yeahmans]

@@ZXNovaBoom That's AIV

[@jimsvideos7201]

In terms of sounding cute and being _terrifying,_ FOOF wins hands-down.

[@petrolak]

I would love to know who zapped fluorine and oxygen with 3 MeV so that I could always stay at least 100 km from the maniac

[@DergyQT]

@@petrolak pfft

[@lsswappedcessna]

Any chemical which reacts explosively with ice is S-tier in my book.

[@ricebun4669]

“We’re gonna put (chemical) in here, because it starts with (letter)” is one of the only constants in this world, it brings me great comfort

[@edced_]

this man just explained CAMP better than a 30 min period could

[@DIGITALVHS]

Copper (Cu) nitrotetrazole (Ntz) has a very unfortunate abbreviation

[@shrededpudding5921]

i was kind of surprised that it wasn't on the list

[@justapassie]

@@sneakybastard3556 same in Vietnamese the 'Cu' literally means 'd*ck'

[@DergyQT]

@@guilhermesartorato93 ??? i dont get it

[@SelecaoOfMidas]

Probably a popular chemical in Australia. 😂

[@phils4634]

@@SelecaoOfMidas Reacts well with Fluorine and Indium . . . . . . (the Aussie way!! 🙂)

[@thedevilofmetal5335]

The tier lists are amazing. The tier lists took the education of science and made it cursed

[@That_Chemist]

Haha

[@SadexTV]

I can’t decide if us chemists have a broken sense of humor or a perfectly intact one 🤣

[@NoahGooder]

i think its a bit of both since you gotta crack open some chemicals to have a reaction.

[@Tigerprowltactical]

Chemist stereotypes

[@asup759]

fragmented...

[@solo-mons]

@@NoahGooder I see what you did there 🫣

[@Sniperboy5551]

Your PFP reminds me of an Anaal Nathrakh album cover. If you enjoy extreme heavy metal, you’ll love them!

[@alexpotts6520]

Sodium ethyl xanthate first same to my attention during a Wikipedia April Fools' Day prank. The website has a tradition on April 1st of having a "Did You Know" page full of highly misleading but still technically correct information; one such entry was, "Did you know that the Australian government requires high-risk SEX workers to wear full-face respirators?"

[@andrerenault]

One unexpected aspect of these tier lists is that I’m learning about molecules that go way beyond what I could’ve imagined could be done with chemistry. I don’t particularly love the discipline, but I love watching someone passionate about it cracking jokes.

[@That_Chemist]

Thank you :)

[@lloydevans2900]

The "BARF" reagent you showed here is one of the more unusual ones. The much more common one is with plain old pentafluorophenyl groups, of which there are two possible varieties - either the neutral borane with 3 of them, or the anionic form with 4 of them. The former does have some uses, such as if you have an organometallic compound with alkyl groups directly attached to the metal (such as dimethyl zirconocene), the neutral borane "BARF" reagent will rip one of those alkyl groups off, leaving a formal positive charge on the metal and a weakly co-ordinating borate anion somewhere near it. As regards funny sounding silyl groups, check out the "Journal of Unpublished Chemistry", which reported some interesting ones: PropylIsopropylEthylSilyl, PropylEthylAmylSilyl, and CycloHexylIsopropylPropylSilyl, with the delightful acronyms of PIES, PEAS and CHIPS. Not sure if these actually exist or are ever used, but I don't see any reason why they couldn't be made.....

[@That_Chemist]

I had it drawn that way, but my Discord criticized it so I changed it

[@NetRolller3D]

Don't be silyl, man...

[@professor_steelbottom]

In my early days as a peptide chemist, I protected amino acids so often with the Boc group that I was known as the Boc-ing a-hole.

[@JarlRagnaar]

When I see those funny names, I always think whoever named them was either the greatest stuck-up/ innocent person ever not realizing what they're doing or someone had a REALLY good time submitting the name

[@Headpotatoes]

All I wanted is FOOF in S-tier and I wasn't disappointed 😌

[@LordVysh]

If FOOF wasn't in S tier I was going to riot.

[@ballboys607]

Unfortunate that MOM-Cl doesn't add an overprotecting group

[@ಠಎಠ]

Loudspeaker: "Any personnel stationed near the flocculator shall immediately proceed to medical for SEX exposure" Me: "Hello, HR? I feel uncomfortable."

[@DergyQT]

uhhh i have nothing to say

[@joshp6061]

All my research is centered around PIDA and I have never heard of the BAIB acronym. 5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

[@That_Chemist]

:)

[@applenrd]

FOOF losing a fluorine is a big OOF

[@paolarei4418]

Hahaahaaahahaa

[@niklas_science]

As a German I find it so hilarious how you pronounced ‚Bremsstrahlung‘… It kinda reminded me this one time when Tom tried to pronounce ‚Schraudinger‘ 😂

[@nicholasbradshaw]

you either studied German or Japanese in Australia, and clearly Tom went for Dragon Ball rather than Komissar Rex.

[@milesmccollough5507]

this one got phoned in harddddd and i'm honestly ashamed to say i laughed as hard as i did at many of these jokes.

[@kingnotail3838]

Arylselenium halides can be abbreviated as ArSeX (Hypothetical) aryldiselenium halides could be abbreviated as ArSeSeX

[@CasualChemistry]

Lol I was going to add this one to the comments. It took me too many years of teaching to realise that I should write this right to left instead in mechanisms as X-SeAr. Super subtle this way 😂

[@DeputatKaktus]

Funfact: „DEADCAT“ is also the product name of a wind protection sleeve for microphones. They are made by Rode. You will have seen one at some point, probably during a TV broadcast - they look like a very thick, mostly gray piece of shag carpet. Or, you know, a dead cat. If you tilt your head and squint, anyways. My guess is that some dude at the Rode company did not like cats that much.

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

5:26 Canadian Pacific Railway? Cerebral Palsy? Also, when a fellow chemist in your lab keeps stealing your pyrophosphates: “Stop touching my PP!”

[@That_Chemist]

Innocent

[@ChakkyCharizard]

Fun fact! "CP" is also a Japanese slang term meaning "shipping"...Because it's pronounced "shi-ppi"...Yeah, I was extremely alarmed the first time I saw it.

[@RunOut25]

Huh?!?! This gets even more alarming the more you think about it.

[@lapisinfernalis9052]

Me: How can I make non chemists think I lost my mind when talking about chemistry? This tierlist: Hold my EtOH!

[@axivalidator7885]

The first time my grad student who’s mentoring me in my group drew out a Cp* NHC piano stool complex and told me that it was called a “piano stool” i hysterically laughed for 5 minutes straight and she just stood there by the whiteboard staring at me

[@Tigerprowltactical]

Lmao, that molecule needs a even higher tier

[@ibnyahud]

Just found your channel...I don't know much about chemistry, but you videos are addicting and have really kindled an interest for me. Thanks man.

[@That_Chemist]

No, thank you :)

[@skyethebi]

DEADCAT is one of my favorite names molecules because it’s explosive, carcinogenic, shock-sensitive, and intensely irritating. In other words, it’s a very apt acronym.

[@dinocoder1281]

You should do Which chemical will get your lab raided by the DEA?

[@phizc]

Eh. Most of them has already been featured in other tier lists 😄

[@filipealarza9079]

@@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb Surprising how a chiral carbon can be the difference between getting busted or not.

[@RT42069]

Gamma butyrolactone, hydrogen iodide, hypophosphorous acid

[@fantasticjames9451]

This video slayed me DEAD. I really enjoy your channel and this vid was super duper enjoyable

[@That_Chemist]

Thank you :)

[@pk.002]

I'm a layperson when it comes to chemistry, my only experience with it is with either medical editing I do for a living and a 100 level course I took during undergrad but you make the subject matter so accessible and entertaining. I have that same mission when I work on any kind of science writing and you do a phenomenal job.

[@That_Chemist]

thank you! :)

[@oitthegroit1297]

When I heard "BOC anhydride", I imagined Johann Sebastian Bach's face replacing each atom in the molecule

[@That_Chemist]

Lmfao

[@efo19wire]

lmao you seemed to be having a BLAST during this video, and it’s contagious. love the editing too!

[@That_Chemist]

I was ;)

[@kiro9291]

I'm glad you sound more enthusiastic in these videos

[@ZA-mb5di]

11:53 Pida, don't turn me into marketable chemical compounds

[@VorticalEx]

dude you are getting me into chemistry i hate you i love you thanks

[@That_Chemist]

glad to hear it :)

[@ThatVarietyGuy1234]

FOOF when did I here of that oxidizer not like that was in a earlier tierlist

[@That_Chemist]

I only kept it in because *people would riot* if I didn't

[@cheeftnx97]

I actually worked with CAN during my undergrad research project, splitting water to try and produce Hydrogen in a sustainable way. It didn't work out so great, but I got a distinction for the unit and it gave me a career goal!

[@chickendragon2966]

I love how this guy has no fear of demonetization.

[@eier5472]

Wanna see a magic trick where I reduce your yield to 0%? (drops angry hydrogen peroxide version with fluorine into your reaction mixture) **FOOF**

[@mindbound]

> CAM stain This ruined my day but made my week

[@That_Chemist]

:(

[@sacredyveltal4688]

I've been having a stressful week because life's difficult but this video helped me immensely to feel a little better so thank you. Also, you seemed to be having the time of your life whilst recording (and probably editing) so I can appreciate it, being in good spirits is important c: I'll admit some entries I did not get them however I still enjoyed the video. The addition of background music is not bad, I do not mind it, however I'm not sure how well it'd work in more "serious" videos, since people will most likely prefer to pay attention to the information being presented. Anyway here are my comments for today's upload :)

[@That_Chemist]

Thank you :)!

[@sacredyveltal4688]

@@That_Chemist No, thank you for being so attentive to the community! It's a treat receiving a reply from the uploader and reading whatever they have to say :) By the way, I haven't joined the discord server (mostly because haven't got the time) yet but one day... we'll see!

[@brillum]

The way you said PIDA killed me. Bravo.

[@Petemate69]

Never read a single paper where DEAD has been called DEADCAT and i've read thousands of Mitsunobu papers

[@viorp5267]

Never knew anorganic chemists were all into CP

[@aWildNelby]

I love the complex scientific method of classifying certain compounds into certain tiers because they have a matching first letter 😂

[@borwinbandelow2781]

In our advanced inorganic lab course we were all forced to make huge quantities of BArf. Purely for educational reasons of course.

[@simrock_]

This was a Tierlist on my level of chemical understanding. Hehe, funny name :D

[@mikekeenan8450]

Besides TEA, there's also diethylamine, whose acronym is also the acronym for the agency that will show up at your door with a search warrant if you order it in the US.

[@angusfraser8543]

Just FYI, Bremmstrahlung is how X-rays are made in X-ray generators. For 3 MeV you'd use a linear accelerator rather than a simple X-ray tube for something like a Medical X-ray.

[@maxjoechl5663]

Yes, Bremsstrahlung (1 m, 2 s), pronounced „Bremms-Sh'trahlung“, occurs when charged particles are decelerated, hence the name literally meaning „braking radiation“.

[@dasbuj]

"This one can go right into C tier, because it begins with C" BOC chillin in C tier: "am i a joke to you?"

[@That_Chemist]

What does it end in?

[@dasbuj]

@@That_Chemist :0

[@zayd162]

5:23 edp's fav chemical

[@Tekdruid]

8:55 Treating cancer with DOTA is one of the greatest feats of irony.

[@GenericAnimeBoy]

CAN looks like the kind of Nope that Tom from Explosions and Fire might be interested in. It's weird that the Wikipedia doesn't note anything about it being explosive.

[@sealpiercing8476]

Ammonium and nitrate are relatively stable to begin with, as such things go. The reducing agent (ammonium) has already been partially oxidized and the oxidizing agent (nitrate) has already been partially reduced. Not much energy there, and relatively high activation energy. The cerium is already fully oxidized, not contributing any potential energy, and is neutralized by some additional nitrate that further dilutes the ammonium nitrate. It might still be able to deflagrate, I don't know, and even a wimpy compound that can exotherm and produce gas all by itself can cause specific kinds of trouble, and this one is also an oxidizer. I'd be surprised if it can detonate though.

[@Hagurmert]

The DiPT one is so funny, it dipped to D-Tier... Also because it starts with a D It's so funny, I love this

[@crabmansteve6844]

Man TC you phoned this one in hard, I love it. ❤️

[@That_Chemist]

Thank you :)

[@studiosnch]

FOOF is just a practical compound. It says what it is, how it is made, and how it decomposes.

[@franzherfert3686]

isn't Bremsstrahlung just x-Rays? i specifically remember this from german "high school" physics, as xrays are usually created by slowing down fast moving electrons and Bremsstrahlung means deceleration radiation.

[@tommihommi1]

The wavelength of Bremsstahlung can be in many different ranges. The blue glow of nuclear reactors is maybe the most famous example

[@jhoughjr1]

I love it as a word because it communicates the physics involved

[@franzherfert3686]

@@tommihommi1 I partially agree. The definition on english wikipedia is quite broad and could be understood to include Cherenkov radiation but the mechanism for that is completely different from xrays. The german definition on wikipedia seems to be more strict although it is also not limited to the xray range.

[@petevenuti7355]

I confuse it with the radiation from cyclotrons, the light emitted because of the particles constantly changing direction (because they are going in a circle) , what is that radiation called again? That radiation is *technically* infinitely tuneable, whatever it's name is.. more so than secondary stimulated emissions ( rayleigh? ) or Bremsstrahlung..

[@IridiuLugia]

not 100% sure but i think its neutron radiation. Worse than gamma rays I believe. Thats why you need so much water around the reactor, besides the cooling ofc. Also yes, that is the cause of Cherenkov radiation if I am correct.

[@fyang1429]

There's a class of ubiquitin-cleaving enzymes called "SENP" (apparently already named after some DoD character). Now if someone would categorically give its *Allosteric Inhibitors* an acronym...

[@jeconiahjoelmichaelsiregar7917]

AHAHA I see what you mean

[@K310-i4z]

SENPAI~(LOL

[@nosurprise885]

bremsstrahlung is the radiation emmited by the breaking of a particle that goes faster than light in the medium where it is

[@nosurprise885]

Thanks for the like and keep up the good vids 👌 @thatchemist

[@emilen2]

DiPT is a pretty weird hallucinogen. Probably the only thing that makes music sound completely out of tune, i.e. it shifts the perceived distance/pitch between notes. It was a rather uncomfortable experience to try, and not very visual.

[@matthewhall5571]

NBA should've been a slam dunk for S Tier

[@That_Chemist]

you should make content lol

[@DarkWarchieff]

Malodorents next? I read about a hilarious event where Selenols escaped a London lab. Nobody was endangered but the whole city got farted on.

[@DingusYi]

11:46 caught me off guard. I have this playing in the background as i do schoolwork. I have never double tapped on my phone faster in my life

[@That_Chemist]

awesome :D

[@DingusYi]

@@That_Chemist ayo bro i didn’t expect you to see this well, this is random but I wanted to tell you that i’ve always had a passion in science (space, physics, thermodynamics, chemistry, etc) and your channel is the only one that I watch (relating to chemistry), other than NileRed. You along with Nile only help in this passion and I think I will have a job relating to chemistry in the future because of you guys. Basically, I just want to thank you for existing lol

[@antrumkfpsalatschleuder8768]

The price of BARF doesn’t make me barf… working too much in Biochemistry as long as it isn’t 4digits for 100mg it is fairly cheap

[@lefthandedspanner]

also, Bremsstrahlung is pronounced 'bremz-shtrah-loong' (S before a T is always pronounced 'sh' in German)

[@AnneJan]

Also it's X-rays in English ;-)

[@eier5472]

Dude it literally has the IPA pronunciation next to it

[@chaotickreg7024]

@@eier5472 We already know how to pronounce Indian Pale Ale

[@DerBMXFan]

someone had fun making this

[@RiCKY-zt3tl]

TPAP looks a lil like a sign made by a austrian artist

[@WaterLemon147]

Imagine being mispronounced as tipsy and having something to do with alcohol

[@paulroark4686]

Wish you would of had isopropyl alcohol in the list so we could have some IPAs :)

[@Elphyme]

5-FU was always fun to say.

[@jlp1528]

Bremsstrahlung radiation is the most interesting kind IMO. Radiation so intense that shielding it turns it into another kind of radiation is crazy enough, but then the new kind is actually harder to stop because it's now photons instead of particles. Wild. Cherenkov radiation is actually a specific type of bremsstrahlung, and definitely my absolute favorite kind of radiation for various reasons. Heck, you can literally safely look down into the active core of some research reactors and see the unique blue glow with your own naked eyes. If that isn't the most immediately captivating demonstration of benevolent nuclear physics in action, I don't know what is.

[@robertb6889]

Never forget the famous abbreviation used in a paper about copper nanotubes. They took the carbon nanotubes abbreviation (CNTs) and used the chemical symbol for Copper (Cu) in place of carbon.

[@MrMilarepa108]

I subscribed to this channel because of Hamilton's podcast. I demand DiPT to be ranked based irregardless of it's pH value. And yes, irregardless is a word.

[@nanimuwu]

These videos are becoming more and more unhinged.

[@SonOfNone]

This episode is sponsored by.... *RAID: ShadowLigands*

[@That_Chemist]

Haha

[@GodlikeIridium]

That chemist: "The tierlist will be based on the following properties" Also That chemist: Orders half of them because of their initial 😂

[@joshgreen2164]

I thoroughly enjoy your puns.

[@pelicanwhisperer]

you should have taught the amazon scammer about chemicals, maybe they would find a new passion in chemistry and not scamming grandmas

[@mmaj777]

CP is Club Penguin

[@kenhaze5230]

Disappointed not to see my old favorite, no, not Molly, not Lucy, not Mary Jane, no, BOB is the best of the mind alterers. Well maybe that's why it's not on the list, because it's not "best abbreviations" organized into putative tiers.

[@soylentgreenb]

Bhremsstralung is an interesting phenomenon. High energy charged particles are very easy to block. Things like solar wind and intergalactic protons. But, when a charged particle decellerates very quickly it sends out xrays that can have energies in the MeV range. You therefor want to use a light element light hydrogen, boron or carbon to block the charged particle to reduce formation of energetic xrays. But these light elements don’t block x-rays very good. If you optimizes you end up with light shielding on the outside of a manned space ship or similar; something like a plastic, beryllium, water filled tank or hydrogen fuel tank., under that you want a layer with higher density, like steel, and beneath that something even denser like tantalum. Breaking radation is also useful when you want to generate x-rays of a specific energy. You use an electron beam and you can tune that.

[@malakidemeo4425]

Hated doing chemistry in college but here I am sitting listening to a chemistry video 😭

[@That_Chemist]

I hope it makes the topic more enjoyable!

[@malakidemeo4425]

@@That_Chemist it really does it felt so bland and exhausting to do but talking about it in a funny manor definitely helps keep my attention

[@Doctorgallium]

The journal Analytical Chemistry is worth a special mention lmao

[@DegradationDomain_stuff]

If there is FOOF, is there a POOP?

[@lsswappedcessna]

Ah yes, but POOP is not a chemical. It is a method of selling hamburgers to fish.

[@alexanderstone9463]

For those who haven't read it, Derek Lowe's article on FOOF titled "Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride," is one of the funniest chemistry articles I've read on the internet, though admittedly I'm not a chemist.

[@sillycatboy69420]

You should have put PPi into d tier 💀

[@armwrestlingprofessor]

In research papers I've heard them talk about the usefulness of "Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal sites" of certain metal organic frameworks. CUM is useful 🤓

[@Deluge4000]

Lol TPAP looks like a derpy four legged spider.

[@guruhoro]

Could we have a tir list on the most useful abbreviations for functional groups or other structures? They're damn near ungoogleable, but I finally found a list that tells me what Ar and R, R', etc. mean. I still can't figure out the Y you have in your BOC, for example. Unless it's a surprise tyrosine?

[@LordVarkson]

I get those exact Amazon scam calls all the time

[@DeAngelo77]

I am just taking organic chemistry for the first time in college, and I do love it, but you make it even better. Problem is, I could never just work in a lab all day. Do you have any suggestions of what I could do if I love organic chemistry?

[@That_Chemist]

You grow into it, and the time of the researcher is split into many daily activities, and is not always in the lab. Most Professors spend little to no time doing lab work, while grad students and postdocs spend the majority of their time doing labwork. As you start Ochem, a 3-4h lab feels exhausting, but with experience it becomes manageable to work a whole day, sometimes without a break even lol

[@S.ASmith]

10:07 - its a shame the scam call wasnt about Payment Protection Insurance

[@roriegilligan8134]

I think the only one of these I've used was sodium ethyl xanthate, it's used to make sulphide minerals hydrophobic so they stick to bubbles when concentrating by froth flotation.

[@roriegilligan8134]

I see that was explained later in video. Worked on a copper mine as a student, though they used SIBX as a flotation agent. The smell of xanthate always reminds me of that summer in northern Queensland, taking samples around the mill.

[@lsswappedcessna]

So what you're saying is that you've had SEX?

[@somethinggeeky]

'tea' without 'tea teb'? No love for rocket starter fluid?