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Ban dihydrogen monoxide (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is not reacting as an acid here, it is both at once.

And that was not even the point.