Do you know what's more attractive than good looks? Brains. And if that smarty-pants can also make you laugh, that's a double win. Cheesy pick-up lines are fun and work wonders to put a smile on that special someone's face. Still, they often get repetitive, and your Tinder crush might think you're being unoriginal and pretty lame. Go on, you little flirt, prove them wrong. Use chemistry pick-up lines instead. Break the ice using science. Establish your turf by equipping scientific pick-up lines and impress your crush with your intelligence and witty sense of humor.
Chemistry pick-up lines might just do the trick and get that reaction you wanted. (Chemistry, reaction - you see what I did there?) They are so niche and thus particularly brilliant and funny. You don't even need to be a science major to pull them off. Nonetheless, given that you've ended up in this article, I expect you to have at least some basic science knowledge. If you have seen a periodic table at least once in your life, that will definitely work in your favor.
Below, we've compiled a list of chemistry pick-up lines to boost the chemical reactions in your crush's brain. Prepare for a release of endorphins and, if you're lucky, oxytocin, a.k.a. the "love hormone."
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"My heart is made of Gallium. It melts when you’re close to me."
The Rizz—What It Means and How To Use It?
Congrats, “rizz,” you’ve become the Oxford Word Of The Year 2023! To those not acquainted with the term, here’s what it means, according to Oxford University Press:
“Rizz” is a colloquial noun defined as style, charm, or attractiveness, the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner.
Etymologically, the term is believed to be a shortened form of the word ‘charisma’, taken from the middle part of the word, which is an unusual word formation pattern. Other examples of this word-formation pattern include “fridge” (from “refrigerator”) and “flu” (from “influenza”).”
Although rizz might seem like a spontaneous formation, the origins of the word are attributed to Kai Cenat—a streamer on the Twitch platform - who has been using this term since mid-2021 in his videos. Well, the phrase definitely caught on!
Rizz can be something you’re born with or achieved by using engaging chemistry pick-up lines, but each case and situation is different. Yet, everyone agrees that having “rizz” mostly means charming someone who was not that into you in the beginning. For all we know, these periodic table pick-up lines are a great place to start.
“I wanted to tell you a joke about Chemistry but all the good ones Argon!”
"I undergo anaerobic respiration when you’re near, because you take my breath away."
"Do you want to share some electrons? Maybe we could have a stable relationship."
How To Flirt Without Being Seen As “Creepy”?
We hear you! Nobody wants to seem creepy when attempting to flirt, and this is probably one of the biggest fears of anyone trying to talk up to their crush. Our best advice would be to stick to science pick-up lines; they are as far from creepy as possible! However, if you were hoping for more concrete advice:
Read the signs. Pay attention to the verbal and body language of your crush, and if they seem uncomfortable, dial back your efforts.
Compliment sincerely. A heartfelt compliment can never be read as a cringy pick-up line or something borderline creepy. It is always a safe choice!
Give them the space to breathe. Don’t violate their personal space, and be careful about touching them. Consent is the name of the game, even when it comes to a handshake.
Use humor. If you feel the atmosphere is a bit tense or if you yourself feel nervous, crack a joke—no matter how lame it is, it is bound to ease you both up.
Smile. A charming smile is as disarming as a good periodic table pick-up line. When together, they make an irresistible combo!
As with anything else in life, keep it simple, and don’t try to go overboard with your efforts; it's best to take it slow and easy. And if you’d like to gain more confidence with these chemistry pick-up lines—dirty, clean, or neutral—continue scrolling this list!
"Oxygen and Magnesium got back together! OMg!"
“Scientists recently discovered a rare new element called Beautium and it looks like you’re made out of it.”
"You’re hotter than sulfuric acid and sugar and you smell twice as sweet."
"Even the Kelvin scale couldn’t measure how hot you are."
"I know hundreds of Pi digits, but what I really want to know is the 7 digits of your phone number."
Could be phrased better. “I know hundreds of Pi digits, but the only digits I really wanna know are yours ;)”
“I’m just hypothesizing, but I think that the reaction between you and me would be quite exothermic. Care to plot some data points?”
"You must be a compound of barium and beryllium, because you’re a total BaBe."
And moreover totally unstable (or more probable: nonexistent), because both are Alkaline Earth Metals of group 2 in the PSE. Wouldn't want to date that...
"Where is the closets research? Because I sense a lot of chemistry between us."
“RNA is my favorite nucleic acid, because it has U in it.”
"Are you made of copper and tellurium? Because you're CuTe."
"If I could rearrange the periodic table, I'd put Uranium and Iodine together."
"You are the HCl to my NaOH. With our sweet love, we could make an ocean together."
“Baby, you must be an alkali metal. One touch and I can tell you’re highly reactive.”
"You are so hot that you have a tendency to make my lab goggles get all foggy."
"You must be mitochondria, because you are the powerhouse of my heart."
"You’re made of oxygen and neon, right? Because you’re definitely the ONe."
She's definitely made of neon and I'm made of oxygen, because there's no reaction...
"You’re the Higgs boson particle of my life… Because, without you, my universe wouldn’t matter."
"U + I = 145, Uranium is 92 and I is 53, because we got chemistry."
“Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just our bond that is forming?”
"You’re a pretty perfect arrangement of atoms."
"I’m so strongly attracted to you that scientists will have to discover a fifth fundamental force."
“My favorite attractive force is van der Waal’s. Can you feel it? I’ll move closer if you can’t.”
"I’ll be your T-Cells for you and protect you from everything."
“I don’t know how you do it but you really know how to make my atomic number rise.”
"If I were a particle and you were a quantum potential, would you allow me to penetrate your classically forbidden regions?"
"You must be traveling at the speed of light, because time always seems to stop when I look at you."
"I wish your name was Avogadro, because then I would already know your number."
“According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, you’re supposed to share your hotness with me.”
"Your PH must be 14, because you’re the most basic need in my life right now."
"Do you have 11 protons? Cause you're sodium fine."
"We have such great chemistry, that we should do some biology together."
"You must be a positive ion, and I am a negative ion. Because we feel an attraction between us."
“You be the battery, I’ll be the aluminum foil and together we’ll light up the world.”
"If there is an infinite number of universes out there, than we are already together in at least 1."
"You raise my dopamine levels."
“I wish I was adenine so I could get paired with U.”
"You must have an extraordinary heat capacity, because you are hot!"
"Are you into science? Because I LAB you!"
"So, your lab or my lab?"
"You make me hotter than sulfur hydroxide mixed with ethyl acetate."
“If you were C6, and I were H12, all we would need is the air we breathe to be sweeter than sugar.”
"You must be Fluorine, because I can’t seem to get away from you."
“Me telling you all my jokes could take a while. I’ve got 6.022x1023 of them.”
"Blood is red. Cyanosis is blue. I get tachycardia when I think of you."
"Are you the sine of pi/2? Because you are the 1."
"You’re hotter than a Bunsen burner turned up all the way."
“My heart burns like a mole of suns for you.”
"You are a photon quanta to my valence electron, because you excite me to a higher energy level."
"Baby if you let your acid react with my base, you can count on getting 100 Moles of my water and salt."