• FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Hello I think this is funny because I think I understand more or less what this is implying (atoms and electrons? And because it’s missing one electron etc.)? I think?

    But would love if someone explained it for those that are way less smart than me who wouldn’t get the joke, unlike me.

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      Free radicals are essentially ionized molecules. So radical Islam is just like normal Islam but missing an electron.

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        Free radicals and ions are quite different. Consider the .OH radical and -OH ion.

        .OH radical - no charge, one unpaired electron

        -OH ion - negative charge, no unpaired electron

        Radicals have an unpaired electron, ions have a charge. They may or may not occur alongside one another. You can have ionized free radicals but it’s not always the case, as shown in the example above.

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    Yes and no, this is not jsut radical islam, but radio-labelled radical islam, the star denotes the radio labelling, in this case, a neutron extra, the stable version has a mass of 786, with n = 478 and p = 308, n/p ratio of 1.551948051948052, which just so happens to be the highest n/p ratio of a stable element.

    spoiler

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron–proton_ratio

    https://islamichorizons.net/the-myth-of-786

    Also, I did not really knew of 786, I know that people collect stuff with 786 (my dad also had a few crrency notes with serial ending in 786) but did not know it had no officially recognised significance, just numerology and alphabet-numeric conversion