Talk:Benzene Series/@comment-82.27.165.127-20171123224700

Chemistry student here (first year, so take it with a pinch of salt). At the bottom of the page it says:

"Paradichlorobenzene's chemical structure is the opposite of benzene. If 'antichlorobenzene' is the "opposite" (anti-) of paradichlorobenzene, then it may be benzene itself."

This doesn't make any sense. Paradichlorobenzene is not "the opposite" of benzene; consider that benzene is symmetrical in most axes, I'm not sure what that could even mean. I have edited this out because it's complete nonsense. Furthermore, paradichlorobenzene is a real chemical - it's a benzene ring with a chlorine bonded on opposite sides (para means they're on opposite sides, di means two). The name might play into the duality of the song (good, evil, meaningful, meaningless, etc).

"In organic chemistry, "R" denotes an Alkyl side chain, and "X" indicates a Halide functional group (any compound with a halogen in it, such as Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, or Iodine, chlorine apparently being an element in paradichlorobenzene.)"

I don't see how this is relevant at all lmao. you would never right "RX" to mean an alkyl halide, because it already means "prescription".