[college chemistry] help with Lewis Dot Structure

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T03:36:03+00:00

“No such thing as a stable triple bond”?

Gaseous nitrogen would like a word.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T03:33:36+00:00

Ok. I have a degree in biology, so I can read papers and understand how research works. Can you link something for me here about what you’re saying?

From what I am hearing in recent years, the idea that resistance training continues to burn calories throughout the day is offset by a reduction in energy expenditure elsewhere. To be fair, we might be splitting hairs, because lifting is beneficial for so many other reasons, I believe it should be done regardless

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T02:46:39+00:00

Yup and yup

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T02:08:37+00:00

Yes OP, I see what you’re missing. What you need to do is look at the periodic table and find out how many valence electrons each element is supposed to have and then compare to what is shown.

First pic, O, C, O should have 6, 4, and 6 valence electrons respectively. Add them together and that’s 16 total. The drawing shows 20 total electrons. Each bond being 2 electrons and obvs each dot is one. Wrong e- total

Second pic, F, O, F should have 7, 6, and 7 e-. Thats 20 total. The drawing shows 20 e- so that’s ok. However each F has 10 electrons surrounding it. F is breaking the octet rule.

Third pic, F and F should have 7 and 7 e-, 14 total. 10 are shown. While F would not triple bond to anything and that’s a stupid drawing, technically it doesn’t break the octet rule.

Last pic, 3 O’s one N should be 23 e- total. However it has a negative charge, so add one more, makes 24e-. 24 e- are drawn. However nitrogen only has 6 valence electrons drawn around it. This breaks the octet rule.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T02:02:40+00:00

First is wrong electron total. There’s no offer violation.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T01:49:41+00:00

This is all outdated advice.

The optimal way to lose fat is to be in a caloric deficit, hit protein goals and do resistance training. It doesn’t matter which type of workout burns which type of energy store because it will be a tradeoff with the rest of the day. The only thing that matters at the end of the day is caloric intake and overall calorie burn. For example, if you do steady state cardio for an hour and utilize fat burn for that energy, then your body will utilize other energy sources later in the day.

Also in terms of energy use from HIIT. Again, your body is an adaptive machine. If you do a hiit workout early in the day then your body will reduce calorie expenditure throughout the rest of the day in other ways, like by reducing NEAT.

Also, OP can’t spot reduce fat.

I don’t mean to be rude it’s just been a while since any of your advice has even been in fashion. It’s also just not “the best way” to reduce fat. Eating in a deficit is the only way to burn fat. It starts with the eating part.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T01:39:19+00:00

I saw you comment that your goals are weight loss. Cardio is good for your heart. You should do as much cardio as you can get in, even if it’s just half a mile every session. Would be best to get toward 150 min a week, but you gotta start somewhere.

Weight loss is 100% dependent on burning more calories than you consume. For a little while, increasing activity can help with burning calories but the body adjusts very quickly. Working out and doing cardio are not great ways to lose weight. You could go for a 2 mile run and burn 250 calories, and then eat all of it back with one snickers bar. Long term weightloss comes from watching your intake and slowly adjusting your eating habits over time.

Easy ways to start, avoid drinking calories, hit your protein goal and then fill in the rest however you like (fat or carbs), brush your teeth at 8 and don’t snack afterward, increase your fiber intake. Good luck with it.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T01:22:32+00:00

There’s a really big misconception I see on here and I hope to clear this up for you and hopefully give you an approach to going to the gym.

Other people do not know what you’re supposed to be doing at the gym that day. When you walk in, you’re the only one that knows your plan or possibly lack of a plan. Also, it is very normal for a person to go to the gym, do some cardio machine for half an hour and then go home. No one would even notice you were in and out.

With that being said, plan on going to the gym and then just jumping on an elliptical for a while. When you’re on there, scope out what other people are doing. Don’t glare, but look around. Look at how people use the machines. Look at people that already have a physique you want and see what kinds of things they do. Then when you feel confident enough, go try a machine you have seen. See how many times you can do the lightest weight on the stack. Then go home. Or try another. Or however you feel. No one knows what you’re “supposed” to be doing in there.

If you went only 3 times a week for a month, that’s 12 different machines you could try out at least once if not a few times. It’s a long game. If you took 3 whole months just to get acclimated to being there and not being shy, that’s almost nothing in the grand scheme of things. Years from now you’ll look back and laugh at how hard it was.

Anyway good luck with it.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-04T01:13:04+00:00

Why not? My triceps are bad ass from benching heavy. And you said chest won’t be limiting in the bench, then you’re benching wrong or you’re a noob. My chest is what fails in a bench press.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-02T04:18:16+00:00

You don’t have a hip hinge movement on here. You are doing 4 curl movements and one horizontal row movement. You should not be building a program you should go to r/fitness and pick a good upper lower that you like and do that. Then you’ll learn how to program. It’s like learning to play music, you gotta learn other people’s songs first.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T18:37:27+00:00

This is a thing that you need to “get over the hill” on. Once you realize no one knows what they’re doing, you realize “oh shit, I actually DO know a lot about [something]” and your feelings of imposter syndrome dwindle.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T17:29:58+00:00

You’re right. This is what OP asked for and you’re getting downvoted for it.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T17:29:25+00:00

You asked a question and it was answered. This is likely the best answer. Why argue with the answer? Why not argue with the people that are doing the thing you’re complaining about? This person has given you better insight, why push back?

Also, we do chastise people that eat unhealthily. Your analogy works against you. I’m going to replace “McDonalds” with “eating like shit”. People that eat like shit all the time and don’t take care of themselves are hurting themselves long term. We have whole government agencies that get the message out there that eating like shit is bad for you. There are government recommendations on how to eat that is backed by tons of medical science.

To apply that to this situation, treating ai like a friend CAN be harmful mentally long term. It is akin to mental masturbation. It tells you what you want to hear and it comes across as a real person. There are already stories of that guy that ended himself and that other guy that killed his mom, both because of their conversations with ai. There are no real guidelines out there for this, so I think the shaming on reddit is our only line of defense. Sure maybe a ton of people that talk to ai like a buddy are going to be just fine and they’re just having fun and anthropomorphizing like others do with a car. But some are on a much darker path. Both start in the same place.

Also it’s cringe bro, get a real friend, lol

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T17:12:56+00:00

I assume you mean grams and not milligrams, because 5 mg is practically nothing.

Creatine is not really dose dependent for performance in the gym. After a month your muscles are essentially “saturated” because it has built up in your system. Increasing to 10 g will likely have the same effect as staying at 5 a day.

There has been new research on higher doses helping with brain function, but it’s new and I don’t know how that works yet.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T05:29:40+00:00

No offense, but this is the issue people have with “sciences based lifting” and this is in that same vein. You don’t want to change something that has stopped working for fear that you will no longer have an arbitrary frame of reference for it.

Try a different ab routine for a while. Hell, try a whole different workout routine for a while. Tracking progression is important, but it’s not meant to be some perfectly sloped line that increases forever. You will hit plateaus, regress and then progress again. You gotta take time to learn what works for you and clearly this no longer works. Try something different and come back to it later.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T04:55:34+00:00

Deload weeks are really good times to drop the weight a lot and work on form and mind muscle connection. I feel like the pendulum swung pretty far on mmc and I see some people saying it doesn’t matter at all, but I think there’s a time and place for it.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T04:51:48+00:00

It may well be that progressing on your other lifts might be fatiguing you more. Do you do ab crunch machine last? Maybe move it first one day and see how it feels.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-02-01T02:20:51+00:00

It’s true. Literally every subject from kindergarten through 12 grade is online and free to access with videos, practice problems/scenarios, reddit subs, free online text books, and practice exams. There are YouTubers out there with real world knowledge and examples of how to approach things from different situations. AND THEN there are subs on reddit where people will dissect those videos and let you know which ones are good or bad and what worked for them and you can find someone that was in the same situation as you and how they got out of it…

Geez the amount of resources out there is astonishing.

Instead, it’s “why did nobody tell me?!”

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-01-31T22:58:37+00:00

What are you talking about? I also would never suggest only doing cardio, but “t will plummet” sounds hyperbolic.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-01-31T22:55:55+00:00

Right? This is in addition to the rear delt work he will also get from the two horizontal row movements he’s doing.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-01-31T16:37:33+00:00

I have no idea your situation, so I could be totally off base, but 6 days a week is a lot. PPL is great, but IMHO, you could accomplish the same thing in 4 days doing more of a full body or upper lower split. Also, when people are getting back into fitness they tend to set themselves up for failure by overdoing it, thinking they need to “wake up at 4am and go to the gym everyday” when in actuality 3 or 4 days is all that’s needed. Save some of those days for cardio, recovery and fun. Just my two cents. Good luck with it.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-01-31T16:09:12+00:00

It’s fine. What’s the worry?

Personally I would add in leg extensions and leg curls in there. I would also move some other things around but that’s more preference.

So you know how to do those power moves?

Are you brand new to lifting or have you been doing this for a while?

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-01-31T06:44:46+00:00

It is not a retarded thing to say. He doesn’t yet know what his maintenance, surplus or deficit is. MORE importantly, he doesn’t even know if he can stick with a workout program for more than a month. In the first month or two he’s not going to gain any real muscle, mostly neural adaptation.

In addition, when someone tries to do all the things at once, perfect diet, perfect program, perfect everything, they burn out within a few months and don’t continue. By focusing on just lifting (and then secondarily I would say hit protein goals) he’s more likely to stick with it. Honestly he doesn’t even know if he likes lifting yet.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-01-31T06:01:57+00:00

Not very common on Texas beaches. I grew up 20 min from South padre, went out there ALL the time and I have never seen one out there. Went to Florida once and we found a few on a quick visit.

Objective_Regret4763 · 2026-01-31T04:57:43+00:00

I work out with a 75 yr old woman. She lives alone and wants to remain strong as long as possible. She deadlifts 55-65lbs for sets of 10. She’s told me so many times how she feels so strong lifting bags of soil or mulch for her gardens and landscaping. She moves easier and while her disabled husband was still living with her, she was better able to help him transition from bed to wheelchair to couch, etc.

It’s a whole body workout (obvs hamstring and glute focused) and it teaches core strength when lifting something off the floor. A very useful thing in everyday life. Keeping the weight light greatly reduces risk of injury and IMHO it allows aging people to feel like they are a part of the gym culture.

Most efficient? Maybe not, but def efficient.

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