September 1, 2025

That's hydride.

Source - SMBC

See, it's funny because...well, honestly I don't necessarily understand why it's funny in a scientific sense.

I get that - as is often the case in many genie stories - the genie fulfills the wish as spoken but not necessarily as the person intended it to be fulfilled. It's a fairly common trope, donchaknow.

But there are hydrogen atoms with two electrons or at least hydrogen ions that have two electrons. I guess changing every hydrogen atom to hydride ions (hydrogen with two electrons) would cause some problems, but I don't necessarily know that all of that would lead to immediate explosions. 

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