Your reasoning is bound to be better than mine as I am not a chemist.
Neither am (was) I!
But as a project engineer in both a refinery and a chemical plant, I had to "pretend" like it, to some extent. But not even close to being a well versed a chemist.
re: Wave. Yeah, I long ago lost most of my interest too. I kind of wish the sordid story would just finally end, one way or another. Sell it, fold it, something. But, enough of that.
Later,
D&O