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"Lol, people don't know what dihydrogen monoxide is."
By what, its name? I don't know chemistry, dude.
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I've never seen anyone say that. That's kinda dickish.
The form I usually see the joke in is a parody of an environmentalist site when they list a bunch of terrible-sounding effects, but when you realize it's just water, it then becomes hilarious.
Yeah, but I think most people know what H2O stands for.
Yeah, but it requires a further step to connect 'dihydrogen monoxide' to 'H20', and from there to 'water'.
Sure, lotsa people would realize it, but lotsa people also wouldn't.
Most people aren't familiar with IUPAC naming conventions, I'd assume.
I remember not catching on, the first time that website was shown to me. I don't remember how long ago it was. But my analysis cap isn't usually on when I'm looking at something that seemed to be obvious bullshit.
I prefer a mix of flourine, uranium, carbon, potassium, yttrium, oxygen, and more uranium, myself.
When the moral of the story is that people should inform themselves about a cause before mindlessly jumping onto it, I wholly agree.
When it's used to take a swing at environmentalists, they better be doing it for trolling purposes and not as a supposedly legitimate counter to environmentalist arguments.
It tastes really good with sucrose.
What about oxygen-potassium-tantalum uranide?
Dihydrogen Monoxide isn't even correct =/
Two hydrogen, one oxygen. How's it incorrect?
I've heard it said that the "correct" name would be Hydrogen Hydroxide, but I'm not familiar with these naming conventions so I don't know if that's true.
^It's not. Water is written as H2O. It would be Hydrogen Hydroxide if it was HOH.
...What is the difference exactly?
/me is ignorant
Hydroxide implies an ionic bond keeping a hydroxide (OH-) ion electrically stuck to the rest of the compound. Water is covalently bonded.
Also H(OH) would make pH very strange to measure.
Wouldn't Hydrate be better?
Wouldn't hydrohydroxic acid be better?
You start with a hydroxide ion, OH-. You covalently bond a proton to it. This is an acid (or technically an acid precursor before you dump it in water...if you could prevent water from being water).
To name an acid whose base anion ends in -ide, you put hydro- at the front and turn -ide into -ic, such as in hydrochloric or hydrocyanic acid.
If for some reason you want to refer to water by a chemical name, hydrogen oxide is unambiguous, and we already refer to H2O2 as hydrogen peroxide which only makes sense if H2O is hydrogen oxide.
Oxidane is acceptable if you're into organic chemistry.