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1y ago

Ban dihydrogen monoxide

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FACT: if you submerge a human in dihydrogen monoxide, they will die within minutes.
- 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.
- Oxygenated liguids have entered the chat
  
  Thanks, sent me down on quite a rabbit hole on PFCs and cryogenics.
- Guybrush Threepwood enters the chat.

They burned this stuff to power giant steam engines and we're supposed to believe it's totally healthy!?
- They use this stuff in nuclear reactors, too. And then they just release it into the air!
  
  At Fukushima, Zirconium-DHMO reactions produced an explosive gas that blew up 3 buildings!

They're putting it in the stuff you drink!
- Every single person that has died ingested it in some form.
- Yea but the government won't tell us

This stuff is so aggressive, they can cut metal with it. ☠️
- Especially when it's filled with rubies, which are known by medicine to cause severe digestive problems.

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.
- I heard it can be used as an ingredient of stuff handed to children on Halloween! Think of the children!!
- And a 100% fatality rate. Everyone who touches it dies.
  
  It's really creepy. We should make a move to stop dihydrogen monoxide being interfering with our lives!
- 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
- Truly, DHMO is the Devil's plaything. It's worse than fentanyl!
- I didn't even know they tested for DHMO. I thought it was something they noticed was so prevalent at autopsy, they just assumed it was naturally present. It's nice to see the awareness efforts have not been all for not.
- Even worse, many people are addicted already at birth because their mother was addicted and had to keep taking it during pregnancy
- Safe?! I live in a country with low awareness, although the rivers are full of it. Every time i take a shower i look literally like bleached afterwards!

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-.
- Neeeeeeeeeerd!
  Got more interesting science stuff ?
  
  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
- Hydroxic acid sounds more terrible in this context, yes. But what does that have to do with possible reactions of H2O?
  
  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.
- ~~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.
  
  Username almost checks out? IIRC Niels was a physicist, not a chemist.
  
  So, uhm... wanna cook?
- Hydronium Oxide

100% of people who have consumed dihydrogen monoxide have died...
- 8 billions of people have and they’re alive
  
  Those people are merely biding their time. I wish it were a joke.
  
  For now. The poison sometimes takes 100 years to become effective.
  
  Let's rephrase. Every person who has ever died has been found with a body composition of roughly TWO thirds entirely DHMO
  
  well one day,they ll die /s
  
  So it's clearly a skill issue you say?
- Every person who hasn't died sooner
  Checkmate
- This is not true. I’ve consumed dihydrogen monoxide and am not dead. You have consumed dihydrogen monoxide and are not dead (unless you’re a bit I suppose). I’d also expect that not 100% of people who have died have consumed dihydrogen monoxide
  
  100% of the people who have died have DHMO intake. Not that they drink, but it may even enter your body directly from your mother
  
  Takes time, hopefuly it will happen when we are n->100 yrs.

Many drowning victims were found to have copious amount of dihydrogen monoxide in their lungs
- 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.
  
  Why do they keep it a secret?

I like how on Lemmy people just write entire essays in the comment sections of memes.
- I like it, too. It feels like there's actual thoughtfulness amongst the shitposting.
  
  I guess that's kind of the reason why ELI5 never took off here. People just explain things throughly in normal comments.

You definitely don't want this stuff to escape into the atmosphere.
- Yes - it’s a very effective greenhouse gas!

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

It is also a base! It’s fucked up that much!
- Fuck me it’s the bisexual of solutions.
  
  Probably why life can develop in it so easily

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!
- It's also highly addictive and humans develop such a strong dependency that withdrawal is fatal.
  
  It also can have a fatal overdose effect!

Recently 5 Billionaires died due to overexposure. It is really dangerous
- Instantly fatal!
  
  At that dosage, in that short of time, absolutely.

Kids are ingesting it between classes!
_THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!! _

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

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.

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

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

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

Two radio hosts got fired years ago after rasing awareness about dihydrogen monoxide.
- I want to learn! Source please? This will help my anti DHMO platform!
  
  Unfortunately not funny story this is referencing
  
  I tried to @ you, but the feature is shit on Lemmy
  Here

Last weekend I was at a formula 1 race. And we got soaked in dihydrogen monoxide there....
- Found the zandvoort enjoyer

Oh hey, I didn’t know it was geriatric meme day.
- Drink some hydrogen hydroxide and your troubles will wash away.
  
  Nitrogen Minoxidil Mono Uride
- Isn’t this sub geriatric memes all the time? I haven’t seen anything here but facebook memes from the 2010 era
  
  O rly? Le sir is displeased?
  
  Ahh the simpler times. You don't miss them?
- !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
- This was a meme before we even called them memes.

smh i only drink acids that have a pH of 0!
chugs 1 M solution of hydrochloric acid

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

Everyone who has ever consumed dihydrogenmonoxide will die!

They killed many women (witches) with that stuff in the old days.

It's also a base although a weak one

I love all the comments 🫀

We'll get to banning it right after we bomb Agrabah!

Guarantee this thread will be taken seriously by some people
- I am not one of those people, but man that was a good caption. Lots of people always forget it's a "reverse scale".

Penn and teller anyone?

Thats dangerous! I will take it to my government (orban and comrades), to create a new hate/fear campaign! 🤣

I can believe that the first post I made is 1.4k updoots

yeah but have you felt overwhelming pain and suffering when you throw up and its acidic and burns everything leaving you with physical and mental trauma due to the unbelievably painful moment your body produced? yeah that's worse

This joke was barely passable when we were 12yr olds telling it on the school. How the fuck a bunch of adults just upvoted this meme I cannot begin to fathom...
- Oh no, the huge meme community has jokes everyone gets :,(
  I too wish there were more memes that only Smart™ people like us could understand, what a world we live in where humor isn't niche
  
  Bro it's not that they're easy to comprehend, it's that they're tired, stale, and trite. Peak boomer humor.
  Come on man, do you really want to see "new hip kid on the block" lemmy immediately leapfrog over reddit and dive straight into becoming Facebook memes?
  Have some fucking standards, goddamn.
- A full one third of the population of the United States cannot name even one branch of government, only 26% can name all three. The meme still works because people are still dumb and you can easily make fun of them over the stuff we knew when we were 12.
- On Lemmy, no one knows you're a dog.
- "am i out of touch for not finding this meme funny?nayh... it must be the manchildren!"

This is the kind of boomer shit that makes me want to go back to reddit
- A Redditor would just say "Bye Felicia"
  
  Maybe in 2009
- Not all boomer humor is bad.

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