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Unstable (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Holy crap that burn looks bad - i hope its mostly edited.

Anyway, can someone explain this for a normie?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I think it’s saying that estrogen has more double carbon bonds, so it’s more stable as a molecule

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It has basically an entire benzene ring, one of the most stable structures in chemistry.

That's an overstatement, but it is extremely stable compared to most things in solution.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not much of an overstatement tbh.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's stable in terms of solute chemistry, compared to other crystalline stuff it can be much weaker.