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Ban dihydrogen monoxide (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 140 points 1 year ago

They burned this stuff to power giant steam engines and we're supposed to believe it's totally healthy!?

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 82 points 1 year ago

They use this stuff in nuclear reactors, too. And then they just release it into the air!

[-] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

At Fukushima, Zirconium-DHMO reactions produced an explosive gas that blew up 3 buildings!

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 106 points 1 year ago

They're putting it in the stuff you drink!

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Every single person that has died ingested it in some form.

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Yea but the government won't tell us

[-] ninjaturtle@lemmy.ninja 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This stuff is so aggressive, they can cut metal with it. ☠️

[-] explodicle@local106.com 18 points 1 year ago

Especially when it's filled with rubies, which are known by medicine to cause severe digestive problems.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 year ago

People worry about microplastics getting everywhere, but what about dihydrogen monoxide? Nearly every autopsy shows that the victim had huge quantities of dihydrogen monoxide in their system.

Some people claim it's safe, but if it's so safe, why is it so critical that it not be allowed near electrical appliances and electronics?

And, nobody mentions how incredibly addictive it is. Virtually every person who starts taking dihydrogen monoxide is unable to quit and has to keep taking it for their entire lives. Anybody who goes cold turkey dies within days.

[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

I heard it can be used as an ingredient of stuff handed to children on Halloween! Think of the children!!

[-] Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

And a 100% fatality rate. Everyone who touches it dies.

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[-] DNOS@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Not to mention its so addictive that brings people in a state of daze and confusion till they actually believe it's good for they're health and they go spreading words such as "u should drink at least a liter and a half a day" we are gone so far that there are also biosynthesized or chemically engineered versions for bays and little kitties this society is awfull

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[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dihydrogen monoxide isn't a good name for water, especially in this context. Hydroxic acid or hydrogen hydroxide make much more sense.
Water only splits into O2 and H2 under electrolysis, not due to acid/base chemistry. You have to be actively adding electrons. In solution, it dissociates into ion states as protons H+ and hydroxide OH-.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 year ago

Neeeeeeeeeerd!

Got more interesting science stuff ?

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Water is the most common substance that can be either an acid or a base (on earth), but lots of other compounds are also amphoteric.

In fact, on other planets where ammonia fills the same role as water, ammonia would be the most common amphoteric substance, so most solutions would be in a liquid ammonia solvent. This means neutral pH on those planets would substantially higher!

K_w is the auto dissociation constant for water, and at room temp, K_w is about 10^(-14). Taking the negative log of the square root of K_w gives the pH of pure water of about 7. The auto dissociation constant of ammonia, however, is about 10^(-30), so the pH of pure liquid ammonia is about 15! Basically, as soon as we start using solvents other than water, pH gets really funky

Edit: and before anyone jumps in to say "ack-shully, pH is based on the concentration of hydronium ions in solution, so you can't use pH for systems based on solvents other than water," pH can also be considered to be based on the protonated form of whatever the solvent is. So in an ammonia-based solution, you would find the pH by taking the negative log of ammonium instead of hydronium. Instead of defining pH as

pH = -log [H_3 O^(+)]

A more universal definition would be

pH = -log [H_2 A^(+)]

Where the auto dissociation reaction of any amphoteric solvent can be written as

HA + HA -> H_2 A^(+) + A^(-)

This is more detail than most people care about, but there's always lurking pedants on the Internet, so I thought I would leave a more detailed explanation

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[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Hydroxic acid sounds more terrible in this context, yes. But what does that have to do with possible reactions of H2O?

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://wiki.c2.com/?HydrogenHydroxide

Hydrogen Hydroxide
Water.
Specifically, water reacting as a base. When reacting as an acid its systematic name is Hydroxic Acid.
Oddly enough, water can be considered a molecule (H2O), or an ion group (H+ and OH-). Once I got that through my skull, the whole acid/base mess got much clearer.

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[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

~~Hydroxic acid~~ hydrohydroxic acid

If the anion ends in "ide", the acid name is hydro___ic acid. So hydroxide becomes hydrohydroxic acid.

Source: I teach chemistry.

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[-] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 53 points 1 year ago

100% of people who have consumed dihydrogen monoxide have died...

[-] Draghetta@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

8 billions of people have and they’re alive

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

Those people are merely biding their time. I wish it were a joke.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's rephrase. Every person who has ever died has been found with a body composition of roughly TWO thirds entirely DHMO

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[-] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 53 points 1 year ago

DHMO pollutes our rivers, water supplies and our bodies. Everyone who has died has had some form of contact with DHMO, either as a pollutant within their body or in the environment. Some people even drink it because "scientists" say we "need" it to survive.

[-] FancyLad@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I appreciate your commitment to the bit.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

Many drowning victims were found to have copious amount of dihydrogen monoxide in their lungs

[-] HumbertTetere@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

Not just drowning victims. Many freshly dead persons will have Dihydrogen Monoxide in their system, including but not limited to their lungs. They try to keep it a secret. Doctors will usually not write it down outside of the mentioned drowning.

If the body decays, that's a strong sign the person had the substance inside it at the time of death.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

I like how on Lemmy people just write entire essays in the comment sections of memes.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

I like it, too. It feels like there's actual thoughtfulness amongst the shitposting.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I guess that's kind of the reason why ELI5 never took off here. People just explain things throughly in normal comments.

[-] Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 39 points 1 year ago

You definitely don't want this stuff to escape into the atmosphere.

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Yes - it’s a very effective greenhouse gas!

[-] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

Every single person on Earth has died/will die after ingesting it.

[-] catherine_fish@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

And for years it's literally falling from the sky. Why government allow it ? I've made my research and it's seems chemtrails are actually made of dihydrogen monoxide!

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

It's also highly addictive and humans develop such a strong dependency that withdrawal is fatal.

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[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Kids are ingesting it between classes!

_THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!! _

[-] Miautteo@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Recently 5 Billionaires died due to overexposure. It is really dangerous

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[-] FarFarAway@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I totally just wrote out the wording in a text and sent it to someone and they freaked out.

What that in? It's really acidic?

Bahahaha

Edit: I spelled it out for them and they still called me and asked what it was.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

For comparison - acid rain has a pH level of 4.

[-] ATQ@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Oh hey, I didn’t know it was geriatric meme day.

[-] Draghetta@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Isn’t this sub geriatric memes all the time? I haven’t seen anything here but facebook memes from the 2010 era

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

O rly? Le sir is displeased?

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[-] Yoryo@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Ahh the simpler times. You don't miss them?

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[-] teft@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

!antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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[-] MrSilkworm@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

People: You should drink at least 2 lt of dihydrogen monoxid daily. Me: Are you stupid? Fish fuck in it!

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[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Wait until you hear about sodium chloride, which is being put into our food, and is made out of a highly explosive material and a poisonous gas.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Not just a poisonous gas but a literal weapon of mass destruction

[-] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Some people say if you heat it up above 100° c it evaporates and it can burn your children!

[-] riotrick@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Last weekend I was at a formula 1 race. And we got soaked in dihydrogen monoxide there....

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[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Everyone who has ever consumed dihydrogenmonoxide will die!

[-] reddit_sux@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 points 1 year ago

I think it is a strong base with pOH of 7.

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