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I don't understand this comic?

Why would changing the number of hydrogen's valence electrons from one to two make everything explode? Someone explain why everything is exploding in the last panel.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=807#comic

At first I thought the genie was splitting the hydrogen atom in order to make it have two valence electrons... but then I realized that didn't make any sense. Or did it?

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  • DrBob1
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    8 years ago
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    Not splitting it; what element near H has 2 valence electrons? When you FUSE H atoms to make this element what happens? (Actually you have to fuse 4 H atoms)

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