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[–] 158 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 142 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 110 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They're putting it in the stuff you drink!

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  • [–] 100 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years 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.

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    [–] 82 points 2 years 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-.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Neeeeeeeeeerd!

    Got more interesting science stuff ?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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    [+] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    8 billions of people have and they’re alive

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years 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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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Kids are ingesting it between classes!

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

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

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

    chugs 1 M solution of hydrochloric acid

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