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3 minutes ago, Dman979 said:

Uh, Adenosine triphosphate or Deoxyguanosine triphosphate?

C169723H270464N45688O52243S912

it must be some kind of big protein, want me to look up which one? :)

1 minute ago, Dman979 said:

I can't see it, so I'm not gonna guess, but I don't think you're right...

I posted a space-filling model of another compound. The lewis formula would have been too obvious.

I hosted this on imgur and posted the link, wonder why you cant see it

 Edit: Here's another one then, bit easier :)

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9 minutes ago, Dafni said:

it must be some kind of big protein, want me to look up which one? :)

I posted a space-filling model of another compound. The lewis formula would have been too obvious.

I hosted this on imgur and posted the link, wonder why you cant see it

 Edit: Here's another one then, bit easier :)

u8QPrrf.png

Doesn't matter, still can't see images until I get home.

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Glucose

Sodium Chloride (commonly "table salt")

Sulfiric Acid

Hydroflouric Acid

Chlorine Triflouride

Not sure 'bout that one.

Cadmium Dimethyl? Also not sure about that one.

 

The unanswered one up above would be a lot easier if I had the legend for the colors. As it is, it looks like some kind of sugar? Perhaps glucose again?

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58 minutes ago, 0111narwhalz said:

Glucose

Sodium Chloride (commonly "table salt")

Sulfiric Acid

Hydroflouric Acid

Chlorine Triflouride

Not sure 'bout that one.

Cadmium Dimethyl? Also not sure about that one.

 

The unanswered one up above would be a lot easier if I had the legend for the colors. As it is, it looks like some kind of sugar? Perhaps glucose again?

The C2N14? That's azidoazide azide, an incredibly unstable molecule due to nitrogen bonds and stuff. And yes, the last one is cadmium dimethyl, or as Hank Green said, dimethyl cadmium.

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4 hours ago, 0111narwhalz said:

The unanswered one up above would be a lot easier if I had the legend for the colors. As it is, it looks like some kind of sugar? Perhaps glucose again?

No, not a sugar. The blue ones are nitrogen atoms.

Spoiler

Its a pretty famous tryptamine derivate, namely N'N-Dimethyltryptamine, aka DMT, aka the spirit molecule.

Here's an easier one for you guys, CH3CH2OH  :)

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42 minutes ago, Dafni said:

No, not a sugar. The blue ones are nitrogen atoms.

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Its a pretty famous tryptamine derivate, namely N'N-Dimethyltryptamine, aka DMT, aka the spirit molecule.

Here's an easier one for you guys, CH3CH2OH  :)

Too easy, ethanol!

This one is fun: C8H8 (posting a structure would kinda make it too obvious)

And one of my personal favorite molecules: C5H12O5

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2 hours ago, p1t1o said:

Too easy, ethanol!

This one is fun: C8H8 (posting a structure would kinda make it too obvious)

And one of my personal favorite molecules: C5H12O5

200px-Xylitol-2D-structure.svg.png

True, ethanol was a bit easy... would you have recognized the dimethyltryptamine too?

C8H8 might be different things I bet. Just by drawing some conjugated molecules I managed to get to three... only recognized one name though: Styrene. But yeah, like I said, with some double bonds you could probably draw a handful of C8H8 molecules.

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The last one is easy, its that horrible Xylitol... call it superglycerine in my head, how I memorized it.

Here's another famous molecule:

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Just now, Dafni said:

True, ethanol was a bit easy... would you have recognized the dimethyltryptamine too?

C8H8 might be different things I bet. Just be drawing some conjugated molecules I managed to get to three... only recognized one name though: Styrene. But yeah, like I said, with some double bonds you could probably draw a handful of C8H8 molecules.

The last one is easy, its that horrible Xylitol... call it superglycerine in my head, how I memorized it.

Here's another famous molecule:

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Xylitol, correct!

I had to google the formula for your one, so I don't think I get to answer it.

I wouldn't have got DMT either, I'm more industrial chemical oriented, havn't worked in biochemistry for quite a while!

Clue for C8H8 - all single bonds :)

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C8H8 with all single bonds? Man, what are you doing to me! I have a job to do :)

One of those cubic ones then?? Let me have another go.

And just to make a point, I am in no way, shape or form associated with any kind of biochemistryness, petry dishes give me the creeps :confused: I work in inorganic chemistry actually.

 

Edit, I think I got the C8H8 one. Its either the one who is just a cube and all 90° bonds, or the cube where you have 60° bonds on two sides, kinda hard to draw, I will spare you my sketches. Dont know how they are called though. Kubane and Pseudo-kubane LOL just a wild guess

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1 hour ago, Dafni said:

Edit, I think I got the C8H8 one. Its either the one who is just a cube and all 90° bonds, or the cube where you have 60° bonds on two sides, kinda hard to draw, I will spare you my sketches. Dont know how they are called though. Kubane and Pseudo-kubane LOL just a wild guess

You got it, I was going for Kubane :D

100px-Cuban.svg.png

 

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44 minutes ago, p1t1o said:

You got it, I was going for Kubane :D

100px-Cuban.svg.png

 

Hahaha, nice. Check my first sketch, I even included that one on there and then dismissed it. Its like a baby fullerene :) never trusted those things LOL

 

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7 hours ago, cantab said:

Well hexene would be a chain molecule. Benzene is the 6-carbons in a ring.

Anyway, here's one:

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Did have to use google a bit, its a tricky one, but my guesses are:

Potassium Aluminium Silicate, or anti-caking agent "E555"...?

Or possibly a variant of the mineral Mica?

If its not that then I'm stumped.

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