edwardspoonhands:

my-time-and-space:

flintstonevitamins:

do you see this

this is a white cube

the license plate is the chemical equation for glucose

sugarcube

Sorry…nit picking chemistry rant…

First, this isn’t an equation…chemical equations are a representation of a reaction, this is a representation of a single molecule which we call a molecular formula. Second, you can’t tell what molecule C₆H₁₂O₆ is from this molecular formula, it could be a number of different molecules.

The cool thing about sugars is that nearly all monosaccharides have the same molecular formula. Fructose, glucose, galactose, fucose…they all have the same molecular formula but different molecular structures. 

Glucose is the most common C₆H₁₂O₆, but there are probably more than a dozen others. There may even be some molecules with that molecular formula that aren’t even sugars…though I’m not able to think of any off hand. So, yeah, the “sugarcube” is completely accurate and extremely clever. But I couldn’t stand by and let this completely esoteric misuse of chemical terminology pass.

sugarcube