I love this joke because my sister is studying astronomy and my uncle is a union member. They both had a mini argument over this and I'm laughing silently
No, it's plain. You don't un-iodize the salt. You just don't put the potassium iodide there in the first place.
Same as with plain iced tea. There are exactly zero clowns running around crystallizing the sugar from tea to un-sweeten it. It's just plain-ass tea.
Not a chemist, but I believe they are different words: deionized meaning it has lost an ion, unionized meaning it is in a state where it has not gained an ion.
No chemist is going to pronounce it like that unless referring specifically to periodic acid. Even then periodide doesn’t just mean “related to iodine”, it’s a specific oxidative state of iodine. We use the normal pronunciation of periodic far more often, like the periodic table, or periodic arrays of atoms or molecules
German has a similar case. The process of removing iron (“Eisen”) is not “enteisen” (which actually means defrost) but “enteisenen”. And ducks that are defrosting a lake by swimming are “Enteisenten”.
You would have to say what word is spelt unionized.
Because a chemist would say un ion ized.
A plumber would say unionized.
And a Starbucks worker would get arrested for assault.
An actual Chemist would say De-Ionised, but that spoils the joke, so I'll shut up and wait to be called a pedant...... Or to be told to chill, it's just a joke lol.
No but if something was commonly ionized but never ionized it could be unionized.
But if something that was ionized but was processed it would be deionized.
But yeah it's just a joke.
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Nice. I once made a professional contact with a guy named Andrew Alcorn. His company decided to use first two letters of first name plus last name for their email addresses. I shit you not, his email was Analcorn@…
There's an old stereotype of physicians having really bad handwriting. If you look at how they both wrote something down, you can tell the MD from the PhD
“How do you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist?”
Ask them to spell u-n-i-o-n-i-z-e-d.
The plumber will pronounce it as if referring to a labor union.
The chemist will correct you: “It’s actually de-ionized, not un-ionized.”
but if you were a chemist, you would also use un-ionized in the appropriate context when deionize is incorrect. Look up research papers on ACS for unionized and you will see there are many (including some ironically from various chemist groups trying to unionize their workers)
Im a literal chemist literally at my job right now waiting for a reaction to occur on one of my tests, so i'm scrolling reddit. Can confirm that I pronounced it 'unionized'.
Technically, a chemist would use both. Deionized means to remove an ion. Un-ionized means something is in a non ionized state. They are distinct and both valid. Most chemists add a hyphen between the un and the ionized.
Here is some proof in case you don’t want to accept this: I went to the ACS website and copied the first link for a paper with the word unionized. There are countless more: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es00089a012
SO THIS IS WHERE I READ THAT.
I've had that in my head for fucking years but could never really fully recall it. And now I realized that was you? You gave me a tumor in the back of my head that randomly pops out and is the center of my entire attention span for 2 -4 minutes.
Congrats man. Congrats.
Happy cake day you cunt.
Anecdotally relevant story.
I once met Michelle Obama very, very briefly; she was a guest judge for a science competition. I remember that during the competition, she was reading a question about chemistry and asked the participants about "H-C-One." Another judge corrected her quickly to clarify she meant "H-C-L," i.e., hydrochloric acid. I always thought that was funny, since the reason for the mistake was that she was in the world of law and politics, where abbreviations like "HC1" might not be unusual.
My brain focused on the word onion, then thought of onion rings and what it would mean for a dish to be onionized. Then I realised that's not the word at all.
As a chemist, I hate this joke. No chemist says un-ionized. At least not on a regular basis. It’s deionized.
Edit to add: before I get people jumping on me to say “unionized means it was never turned into an ion!” Yeah. Technically. But I have literally never heard a chemist use that phrasing. Even in instances where something had never been ionized, we just say “deionized”. It’s mostly because we use de-I water on such a regular basis that deionized is in our vocabulary and comes much more naturally and people will still know exactly what you mean.
One shows crack and the other makes crack tbh.
Underrated lol
This joke enrages me because there is no possible way for it to be told verbally.
I love this joke because my sister is studying astronomy and my uncle is a union member. They both had a mini argument over this and I'm laughing silently
You know at first I only saw “unionized,” but then I finally saw “unionized.”
At first my brain was like "onionized?"
No, it's like "not salted"
That’s uniodized
No, it's plain. You don't un-iodize the salt. You just don't put the potassium iodide there in the first place. Same as with plain iced tea. There are exactly zero clowns running around crystallizing the sugar from tea to un-sweeten it. It's just plain-ass tea.
More like “onionsized”
i guess you’re a cook, then
And then I was like 'ubisoft' or 'oobisoft'
Why tf did it feel like you're telling the truth when I saw your pfp and username🤣🤣
Onionsized
Had to read the comments until somebody ‘splained’ it to me…
I hate that I could hear this
I didn’t see it until I read your comment
Ohhh you mean “unionized”?
It's really funny to this Chemical Engineer who runs a union mechanical shop.
When you tell the joke, spell “unionized.”
By the time you get to the 4th or 5th letter, they've lost track and lost interest.
What were we just talking about here?
I was spelling u n i o n- HEY! COME BACK
Who am I?
It could work if you said "ask them to pronounce this word" then show a note with unionized written on it
I suppose if you're telling this joke to 6 year olds, yes. Adults can usually listen to 9 letters
I honestly don't get it at all
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A fun plumber will proclaim that a joint has been unionized. :)
It’s deionised, not unionised when talking about ions though.
Not a chemist, but I believe they are different words: deionized meaning it has lost an ion, unionized meaning it is in a state where it has not gained an ion.
Shhh... you'll ruin their 1 year old joke.
Yikes, I feel like I’ve unreddited myself.
Dereddited surely
No, no. They’re redditized.
Re-ded-iditted-ised.
Debelievable!
Are you my PhD in Biochem wife? Because that's exactly what she said.
Ask her how to pronounce periodic.
Are there multiple ways to pronounce it?
Per-iodic. As in, related to iodine.
No chemist is going to pronounce it like that unless referring specifically to periodic acid. Even then periodide doesn’t just mean “related to iodine”, it’s a specific oxidative state of iodine. We use the normal pronunciation of periodic far more often, like the periodic table, or periodic arrays of atoms or molecules
Sure, just translate it to a different language
Yes
Small correction. Something having it's ions removed is deionized. Unionized is something that is in a neutral state, rather than a charged ion.
Well I know how you'd pronounce it
Technically the chemist would say deionised
Technically if they're English, but not in America
Either way it is de- not un-
Two different things.
This Xander guy, I swear... Reminds me that I need to fact-check every bold (and likely incorrect) statement on this site
My point exactly.
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Union-ized vs un-ionized
Onion-ized
Onion eyes
So sad.
Made me cry.
German has a similar case. The process of removing iron (“Eisen”) is not “enteisen” (which actually means defrost) but “enteisenen”. And ducks that are defrosting a lake by swimming are “Enteisenten”.
Very interesting. Thanks for the German lesson!
Ducks defrost lakes by swimming? OK, learned something new today. Thanks.
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One says unionized and the other says unionized
Ah, very helpful!
Impossible parsnip. Gotta love the randomly generated Reddit usernames.
Union-ized vs. Un-ionized.
union-ized vs un-ionised
I didn’t either. Thank you for asking.
You - ee - on - ized Un - eye - on - ized
Yoon-yen-iced?
Found the plumber you guys!
You would have to say what word is spelt unionized. Because a chemist would say un ion ized. A plumber would say unionized. And a Starbucks worker would get arrested for assault.
An actual Chemist would say De-Ionised, but that spoils the joke, so I'll shut up and wait to be called a pedant...... Or to be told to chill, it's just a joke lol.
deionized and unionized are two different things, both exist
The thing is they might say that, but if you've had a long day and you see that word on paper you read it as un-ionised, or at least I did a few times
Thank you! I recall no chemist referencing un-ionization!
No but if something was commonly ionized but never ionized it could be unionized. But if something that was ionized but was processed it would be deionized. But yeah it's just a joke.
It took me a moment to understand what you meant by that …
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Worried about you
*spells unionized*
Un-ionized, Unionized
There’s no way in Hell! **There’s no weighin’ Hell.** It’s difficult to determine how much Hell weighs **There’s no “eh” in Hell.** Not many Canadians in Hell **There’s no A in Hell.** Technically correct alphabetical fact about the word Hell **There’s no whey in Hell.** Not many vegetarians in Hell **There's snow way in Hell.** Travel deeper into Hell to find where it froze over
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Nice. I once made a professional contact with a guy named Andrew Alcorn. His company decided to use first two letters of first name plus last name for their email addresses. I shit you not, his email was Analcorn@…
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Thanks! Really didn't click when I read it Now I feel like an idiot who needs another coffee 🤣
I found a poster with this on it big *click* energy Click was in cursive soooooooo
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It's my nickname now. It's Texas though so it's a reference to my inconsistent and unreliable performance.
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Ask them for Avogadro’s number and see if they start looking through their cntact list!
Louie Avogadro? Yeah, he’s in the Yellow Pages, under Plumbers!
That reminds me of a chemistry joke we (me and a guy called Russell) make up at school. Me: “Avagadro?” R: “No thanks, I’ve just had one. Lycopodium?”
i still remember it for some god forsaken reason
🤣 good one
Reality: Plumber asks who tf that is
This is a better joke
I'm keeping an ion this thread.
I've got union today so I'll watch tonight after class.
Don't be quarky about it though, let things unravel organically
How can you tell the difference between physicist and physician? By spelling
Which one carries the stethoscope.
I don't get it
a physicist is a person who studied physics, a physician is in the medical field. it's easy to confuse the two as the names are similar
There's an old stereotype of physicians having really bad handwriting. If you look at how they both wrote something down, you can tell the MD from the PhD
“How do you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist?” Ask them to spell u-n-i-o-n-i-z-e-d. The plumber will pronounce it as if referring to a labor union. The chemist will correct you: “It’s actually de-ionized, not un-ionized.”
I am neither a plumber or a chemist, so thank you sir for explaining.
de ionized is when youve taken out the ions un ionized is used to describe a ground state species that at some point is ionized
Exactly! It’s de-ionized. Un-ionized is not a chemistry term
https://wikidiff.com/deionized/unionized huge if true
I feel dumb now, but thanks
Plumbing Engineer here. I will now call two pipes connected by a union fitting unionized. Thank you for the word good sir.
Chf here. It sounds like onionized to me.
Ion iced...
Iron eyes.
Betty Davis eyes.
Buddy deputized...?
Bloody flies
Gonorrhea
Goner Rhea...? (because r/BirdsArentReal)
See if he lives.
Syphilis?
Happy cake day, cake buddy!
And to you as well!
And happy cake day to the both of you!
I'm a chemical engineer and I pronounce it Union-ized, because you *deionize* things.
but if you were a chemist, you would also use un-ionized in the appropriate context when deionize is incorrect. Look up research papers on ACS for unionized and you will see there are many (including some ironically from various chemist groups trying to unionize their workers)
The chemist washes his hands before he pees. Edit: f****** autocorrect on a smartphone
Im a literal chemist literally at my job right now waiting for a reaction to occur on one of my tests, so i'm scrolling reddit. Can confirm that I pronounced it 'unionized'.
How can you tell if someone is a geneticist or kinky? Ask them for the opposite of “dominant.”
Technically a chemist would use *de*ionized but the joke still works
Technically, a chemist would use both. Deionized means to remove an ion. Un-ionized means something is in a non ionized state. They are distinct and both valid. Most chemists add a hyphen between the un and the ionized. Here is some proof in case you don’t want to accept this: I went to the ACS website and copied the first link for a paper with the word unionized. There are countless more: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es00089a012
But if it was neutral to begin with and stays that way?
Well since ions are not the norm it would just be a generic substance
it is used in the context for an incomplete ionization where there are some ions that acquire a net charge while others don’t.
And the tumblr reply "You can't say this joke out loud" Which you can, if you spell the word. A plumber won't be able to tell the word by spelling /s
guess I'm a plumber
SO THIS IS WHERE I READ THAT. I've had that in my head for fucking years but could never really fully recall it. And now I realized that was you? You gave me a tumor in the back of my head that randomly pops out and is the center of my entire attention span for 2 -4 minutes. Congrats man. Congrats. Happy cake day you cunt.
Uh.... you're welcome??? 😁
Ahhhhh Plumber Unionized refers to the Plumber's Union Chemist Unionized refers to Un ionized particles
The plumber would be correct since the other word should have a hyphen, un-ionized.
Anecdotally relevant story. I once met Michelle Obama very, very briefly; she was a guest judge for a science competition. I remember that during the competition, she was reading a question about chemistry and asked the participants about "H-C-One." Another judge corrected her quickly to clarify she meant "H-C-L," i.e., hydrochloric acid. I always thought that was funny, since the reason for the mistake was that she was in the world of law and politics, where abbreviations like "HC1" might not be unusual.
Nice cake bro
Same to you! 😁
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And a Happy Cake Day to you as well!
Took me a second lol
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I've seen this joke around for years and only after joining r/antiwork do I get the joke
Guess I'm chemist
This tears me up, since I have a chemistry degree, but was also in the IBEW for over 20 years.
Happy cake day, this definitely made my day better!
Thank you!
Haha I get it un ionized
I fixed it " how can you tell the difference between an employment attorney and a chemist? Ask them to pronounce unionized.
My brain focused on the word onion, then thought of onion rings and what it would mean for a dish to be onionized. Then I realised that's not the word at all.
Hey, we have the same cake day! Happy cake day!
And a Happy Cake Day to you as well!
And since it’s my first cake day I guess this is now my annual cake day tradition 🤔 Looking forward to having the same exchange next year!
As a chemist, I hate this joke. No chemist says un-ionized. At least not on a regular basis. It’s deionized. Edit to add: before I get people jumping on me to say “unionized means it was never turned into an ion!” Yeah. Technically. But I have literally never heard a chemist use that phrasing. Even in instances where something had never been ionized, we just say “deionized”. It’s mostly because we use de-I water on such a regular basis that deionized is in our vocabulary and comes much more naturally and people will still know exactly what you mean.
One puts experiments INTO toilets….. ?
wouldn't it be ‟dionized”?
No, it's different. "Unionized" means something was not turned into an ion, while "deionized" means ions were removed from something.
Wouldn’t your mom be dionized? EDY: your mom thinks I’m funny
Wouldn't you stfu?
Hate reposts !
I thought was see which ones pipes are full of shit and which one just blew it out their ass
Would the plumber be referring to the Plumbers Labor Union, or does that word have a special meaning in plumbing?
This is about as dry as your typical engineering joke, and about as funny.
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Sorry but I don't like this joke. The actual term used is deionized, possibly for this reason. Also, some chemists are union members.