A plurality say chemistry is green. Click a color to add your vote.
Chemistry is green because…
“Science is green. Nature, etc.”
“Depends on WHAT chemistry: Love, it’s pink. But science, it’s green. ”
“You associate mixing potions with the color green, which might be linked to witches.”
“The chemist flask icon is usually filled with a green goo.”
“It makes me think of potions which make me think of cauldrons and green witches.”
“My friend’s chem teacher always wears green.”
“The chemist flask iconography is usually filled with a green goo.”
“Green scares me and I have a chem test today which also scares me.”
“Those little acid beakers with the popping bubbles are always colored green!”
“Because of green acid and chemical fumes.”
“Science is green.”
“Chemistry is potions. Typically, potions are green.”
“My chemistry book in high school was green.”
Chemistry is blue because…
“It’s a sterile colour, like chemistry.”
“Because chemicals are usually blue and red in a traditional diagram, but blue is more potent.”
“My chemistry book is blue.”
Chemistry is purple because…
“Professor Plum from CLUE. (Seems like a chemistry professor.)
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“I imagined chemistry between two people who have a complicated relationship.”
“Chemistry is purple because magic potions are purple.”
“Science is green, and chemistry is slightly different, so it’s the color I associate with green—purple.”
“In movies science is purple.”
Chemistry is yellow because…
“While science is green in general, yellow evokes chemicals in the specific. ”
“Yellow makes me think of science.”
“Green is for science. Chemistry involves lighter colors like yellow.”
Chemistry is orange because…
“Fire is orange, and chemistry causes explosions and fire.”
“I feel like green is biology, blue is physics, and orange is chemistry.”
“Despite the challenges, organic chemistry was the first course that made me feel like I could become a chemist. Also, organic and orange start with the same letter.”
“Orange has always felt fizzy to me, therefore orange is Chemistry.”
“Fire is a chemical reaction.”
Chemistry is red because…
“All other sciences are green, but I got a red notebook for my first chemistry course. It’s been red ever since.”
“Red chemistry book.”
Chemistry is pink because…
“Love is chemistry is pink. And Jesse Pinkman.”
“That is, like, the exact same shade of pink as my chemistry book was.”
Chemistry is black because…
“Chemistry feels like that one mysterious and vile subject in the natural science family.”
Chemistry is white because…
“Lab coats are white.”
“Chemistry is white (or more like clear) because of the glassware used in chemistry.”
“Lab coats are white.”
Chemistry is brown because…
“Because I had a bromine test yesterday, and the bromine was—you guessed it—brown.”