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xkcd #3200: Chemical Formula

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Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.

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[–] Trail@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

-1 would be antihydrogen. Blackholium is whatever number is large enough to cause gravitational collapse, so probably one or two more than the largest neutron star.

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I was more like referring to an overflow or something.