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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suprisingly mild and not very reactive. And I wondered if this even exists.

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

Uranium - it makes things safer!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it is a confirmed human carcinogen.

See, that's the good stuff

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

ty for the link, i learned that all h2o4u molecules look like a tiny happy frog jumping at your face

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

Thanks. I was wondering if it was a liquid or not. Crystaline solid.

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

Ok, but definitely don't drink it if it's liquid then.

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

Don't want to drink pure H₂O either...

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

I mean, unless I'm missing something it should be fine as long as you get salts another way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Correct. I have no idea why people are freaking out over drinking water. We constantly eat and drink things that have wildly different osmolarity than our cells and yet here we still are. Our stomach and intestinal mucosa cells are not going to burst if we accidentally drink a milkshake (a hyperosmotic solution).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No? What would it be like?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably tasting remarkably bland and would likely mess with your electrolyte and mineral levels.

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

Isn't it just distilled water?

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

Reminds me on this chemist joke:

A man brought his chemist friend to the bar for a drink with the other friends. When asked what he wanted, the chemist decided that since she's the designated driver, she'll order water. "I'll have some H20, please!" the chemist said, with the man replying "I'll have some H20 too!"

The man died of ingesting hydrogen peroxide.

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

And the joke's alternative anti joke punchline:

The bartender served them both water, because he fully understands everyday human interaction and translated the request as intended.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, for as much as you use the chemical formula for water in your everyday human interactions, anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Little Billy was a chemist

Little Billy is no more

For what he thought was H2O

Was H2SO4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I learned a rhyme once that's relevant:

Danny was a scientist, but now he is no more, for what he thought was H2O, was H2SO4