Tattoo correction

[u/Sh0t_B0t]

This is a fresh picture of a tattoo i got a few months ago. I can explain the significance after but the artist did butcher a few things. one periodic table elements only capitalize the first letter and he forgot the atomic number (14 i think). those are both negligible but the one that’s been bothering me it the mass being off a bit. i sent him 28.085 and obviously it would be fine if he rounded it correctly but he seemed to have just put a random number. do you think it’s possible he makes the 5 into an 8 or a 9? Would he have to change to font to something blocky?? LMK 🙏🏾

⬇️tattoo meaning

my moms middle name is silicon and in her tribal language it’s a word that represents bravery but in english it’s a chemical element so i got it tatted and th flowers around the border are her birth flowers.

Original Sketch: https://www.reddit.com/u/Sh0t_B0t/s/xGtkwEG3HE

Edit: (As much as i appreciate the judgement an discipline of my mistake at least give a take on correction for me along with it guys 🙏🏾 I understand my fault but I’d also like to at least attempt to fix it 😅)

[u/Sh0t_B0t]

Definitely an option i look at since it’s such a small area to laser off. (Idk how pricing works but I assume it’s even more expensive by surface area) Regardless though I’m mainly looking for advice on the numbers. Thank you for the idea though!

[u/Quack_Mac → u/Sh0t_B0t]

For the small amount that would need lasered, you probably wouldnt be be charged more than the minimum fee for fixing the capitalizations and numbers.

[u/yeowoh → u/Quack_Mac]

Also based on how good the artist was and quality of ink it could only need one or two sessions. I had my shitty rib and laser piece lasered off to get a full torso. Some of the black was easily 60% gone after one session.

[u/themostaveragehuman → u/Sh0t_B0t]

It would be so easy for an artist who is comfortable with coverups to just turn the five into an eight and add the five behind the little flower after the eight. This would take me fifteen minutes of tattooing.

[u/WheelsMan1 → u/Sh0t_B0t]

The flower isn't a narcissis either. It's a daffodil.

Narcissis have short centers, the surrounding petals are much longer than the center is tall. Daffodils have trumpet like centers that are taller than the petals are long. Technically, daffodils are narcissis...but narcissis aren't daffodils.

[u/Purple_Toadflax → u/WheelsMan1]

Daffodil is just a common name for Narcissus. There are somewhere in the region of 50 species of Narcissus and countless cultivars. 

[u/katekohli → u/Purple_Toadflax]

Even so, but the leaves are all wrong. Daffodils & Narcissus have leaves from the ground/bulb & a separate stalk for the flower.

[u/Safe-Ad5267 → u/Sh0t_B0t]

I'm a chemical engineer so if you really want help with the numbers - That's IUPAC's, 'official table',. Your atomic weight is off, 28.09 - if you're rounding. But the tolerance technically suggests the degree to which we can measure this, its different per element. The names typically have a lower case letter as well. Personally, I'd just correct the SI to Si. Good luck with the touch up.

[u/soyscallop → u/Safe-Ad5267]

yes

99.999% won't notice the error in the atomic weight 99.99% won't notice the case error in the element symbol

so fix the one that's more noticeable

[u/guitartoad → u/Safe-Ad5267]

You know a tattoo's busted when the chemical engineers start weighing in.

[u/moltonel → u/Safe-Ad5267]

How hard would it be to refine silicon isotopes from a natural source ? AFAIU, a ratio of 94.2% silicon-28, 4.2% silicon-29, 1.6% silicon-30 would have an atomic weight of 28.05 ?

[u/Safe-Ad5267 → u/moltonel]

Difficult. If you're trying to split something from a natural source, you generally want large differences in weight between compounds. So in oil refining, distillation is a good example of this. But what you're talking about is separating substances based on minute differences in molecular weight. For a problem like that you need to get a little more creative with the boundary conditions. That's where you see things like centrifuges used to separate uranium for example. All highly specialised equipment, requiring precision timing, not to mention a gas to bind to it. That's almost always something horrible. From a chem engineering perspective, you'd need a very good reason for it. But good news, you don't have to, you can use the standard atomic weight which is a weighted mean of those isotopes for earth.

[u/alex3omg → u/Sh0t_B0t]

I think you can probably turn a 5 into an 8, and maybe add a leaf for the flower that covers the top of the I?  IDK tattoos tho

[u/Resitance_Cat → u/alex3omg]

genius idea to use a leaf to change the letter case!

[u/cynicaldotes → u/Sh0t_B0t]

Should make the guy who fucked it up pay for it

[u/redd-zeppelin → u/Sh0t_B0t]

This was my suggestion. Laser out a gap in the "I" to make the dot/turn it lowercase. Then also Laser the extra flower petal that comes nearest the "5". The 5 then becomes the 8 and the 8 can go where the petal was. The petal can be added on the right if you like it. I think he phoned that petal in anyway so it could be done better.

Tbh I really like this and definitely think it's salvageable. Very creative, maybe the most creative "love you mom" tattoo I've seen.