r/cursed_chemistry

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Can someone help me with this tattoo design?

And tell me exactly what the chemical compound is. A client sent me it and Google tells me one thing then another. Is it anabolic steroids, or is it naturally occurring testosterone - or something entirely different?

u/Jaded_Telephone8938 — 2 days ago

Terribleness with sulphur fluorides

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiazyl_fluoride, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiazyl_trifluoride, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiophosphoryl_fluoride

Favourite line for the latter: "It is useless for chemical warfare as it burns immediately and is not toxic enough". I mean, you just know looking at it that it wants to do murderous things to you.

I do think the thiazyl group is more cursed though. Sulphur-nitrogen triple bond

u/aloofcord10 — 6 days ago

but why

Someone shared this in a Discord server I'm in out of the blue, followed by an AI slop explanation of the potential psychoactive effects. Not even a server about chemistry. I'm still cringing. Aromaticity won't save those rings.

u/moist2025 — 7 days ago
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Coriforte - methamphetamine combo med

An interesting old combo med.

chlorpheniramine, salicylamide, phenacetin, caffeine, ascorbic acid, and methamphetamine.

u/PotentialHoneydew207 — 9 days ago

Nitromersol - 4-membered mercury metallocycle

Apparently this was at one point used as an antiseptic and apparently for diaper rash. Can also release both NOx and mercury vapor when heated.

u/subzerospartan7 — 8 days ago

Here's another beauty found this time in Psychotria Colorata

its just copy and pasting the same thing over and over, it displaces dizocilpine so it likely acts as an NMDA antagonist, with smaller variants of it acting also as NMDA antagonists aswell as Mu opioid agonists

u/Professional_Mode480 — 13 days ago