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[–] [email protected] 158 points 1 year ago (3 children)

FACT: if you submerge a human in dihydrogen monoxide, they will die within minutes.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Fact: military officers sometimes use very small amounts of dihydrogen monoxide to torture prisoners to extent that the prisoners will admit to committing actions they had not committed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oxygenated liguids have entered the chat

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're putting it in the stuff you drink!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Yea but the government won't tell us

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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-.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neeeeeeeeeerd!

Got more interesting science stuff ?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

~~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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

8 billions of people have and they’re alive

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

For now. The poison sometimes takes 100 years to become effective.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yes - it’s a very effective greenhouse gas!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is also a base! It’s fucked up that much!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck me it’s the bisexual of solutions.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Kids are ingesting it between classes!

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

[–] [email protected] 22 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Two radio hosts got fired years ago after rasing awareness about dihydrogen monoxide.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Drink some hydrogen hydroxide and your troubles will wash away.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

O rly? Le sir is displeased?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

smh i only drink acids that have a pH of 0!

chugs 1 M solution of hydrochloric acid

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