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The detail in this image is overwhelming. I had to sit with it for several minutes as I reordered my lines of sight, making sense of the organization of the chart. As a historian (and thus with little to no background in the sciences, nor with any specialized knolwedge of molecular chemistry), I would have been clueless without your caption. This leads me to ask - how can one alter this image so that it's more readily legilble to non-specialists? 

To this end, I wonder if editing the image to pair with a similar graphic that removes or "translates" some of the molecular jargon into easily recognizable uses for these compounds (i.e. that you idenitify PFOA as a "key consitutient in Teflon production", though PFOA are not shown on this chart.)

This image encourages one to consider the visibility of toxicity. I find it fascinating that you've collapsed toxicity to the most micro of structures to challenge our conception of toxic visualizations.