Chemical Culture
Chemical Culture is a project involving personified chemical compounds. The characters are based on real life chemical compounds, their histories, their uses and properties.
Name
The project was named "Arnua: Dagandi" in 2016 which had no meaning. The name was dropped in early 2019 and the project remained nameless until 2020. The name "Chemical Culture" was given on 29 June 2020 as the name of the related webcomic (see Chemical Culture#History below for more information).
History
Chemical Culture project has its roots that can be traced back to 2013 where the compound diethyl ether was personified in a text. The first visual character designs were created around 2016-2017, the first drawn characters were Diethyl Ether, Chloroform, Hydrochloric Acid, Sulphuric Acid and possibly Ethanol. The project was restarted in December 2018 with radical character design changes on Chloroform and Diethyl Ether, the current deisgn for Ethanol is bade on the unclear figure from 2016.
Beginning in 2019, there were small comics made. A webcomic with the characters Dimethyl Ether, Methanol, Formaldehyde, Formic Acid, MTBE and Dimethyl Carbonate was published on 29 June 2020 on Webtoon platform.[1]
The project was temporarily stopped in late 2021 due to a character information loss when the Chemical Culture Fandom wiki was deleted.
Characters
See Category:Characters for the list of characters
See Chemicals for more information on characters
All characters are based on real life chemical compounds; for example, a character named "Dimethyl Carbonate" is the personification of the compound with the same name, dimethyl carbonate. The characters may have occupations based on what compound they are the personification of; for example, the character Tetrachloroethylene is a dry-cleaner because she is based on the chemical that is primarily used in dry-cleaning, or Acetone, based on the chemical with the same name, owns a nail salon because the real compound is mainly known for being the main ingredient of nail polish removers.
