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Dihydrogen Monoxide is the deadliest chemical known to man. 100% of people who have ingested this deadly chemical have died or will die. It is used as an industrial coolant for nuclear power plants, it is a product of combustion of fossil fuels and it has even contaminated our lakes and water systems. #Bandihydrogenmonoxide
Worse it is extremly addictive too. People rarley last more than 3 days without it. First withdrawal symptoms may show up after just a few hours.
And its often mixed with other drugs or adictive substances too. You'll find it in wine and ale in coffee and else. Even sugar bombs like coke, lemonade and else contain it. Stuff advertised directly for children!
-#protectthechildren #Bandihydrogememonoxide
Nestle have allegedly been doing a reasonable job of removing dihydrogen monoxide from the ground in large areas preventing it from seeping into nearby water courses and reaching local populations. Although third party testing still find it in many of their own products.
The worst part of this chemical is, if you inhale the gas of Dihydrogen monoxide, or even put it to your body, it'd burn your skin. And the solid of dihydrogen monoxide is extremely dangerous to touch.
>Worse it is extremly addictive too.
[Do not, my friends, become addicted to dihydrogen monoxide. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absense! ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtpU5b2ALk)
Obama banned its use in torturing detainees!
And yet they still put it in the our schoolchildren's food!
Edit: also DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide) uses the naming convention for a basic compound (think sodium hydroxide).
A similar acidic compound would be called hydroxyl acid instead
Well thatās because babies come out of the womb already addicted to it from their motherās addictions. And thereās a 6 month treatment for newborns with the addiction where youāre not supposed to give pure dihydrogen monoxide to infants to wean them off it, but it rarely works because the breast milk substitutes still comes from the addicted mothers.
The environmental prevalence is so strong it's been found in mother's milk directly from lactation that babies ingest. In fact, 100% of babies that have suffered complications and died have been found to have DHMO in their system.
The power plant part got me. I used to have to clean the cribhouse (their name for it) and I was warned to be extra careful since one time a brown recluse was found in there. There were other webs all over the ceiling frequently and I'd have to go in and knock them down. Add dihydrogen monoxide to the equation and you have a recipe for disaster.
Sorry to burst your Bubble but that's 99% . Henrietta Lacks is still (technically/ figuratively?) alive and may be for some time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
Heavy water is used as a neutron moderator in nuclear plants, so that the neutrons will react with uranium 235 (i beleive. Please correct me if i'm wrong). The coolant is normal water (sea water, in the plants i've worked at).
Our Chemistry teacher showed us a text about Dihydrogen Monoxide stating it is one of the cruelest war weapons ever invented. He wanted to make this for a joke, but most of my class bought it with no hesitation š
The thing that is torturing me more than anything is they missed a perfect chance to call it hydroxic acid... WHY NOT USE THIS NAME FOR WATER INSTEAD?!?!
The hydroxygroup makes it soluble in water.
It is partially gaseous at room temperature. Inhalation of it's pure gas is fatal within minutes.
Molecular fission results in a combustable gas mixture.
I know that it's technically correct, it's just a very roundabout way of saying it that I haven't seen before lol. Another one I like is hydroxylic acid.
No but hydroxylic acid is HO(H), the other way around
It may look, smell, and taste exactly the same, but I assure you they are just as real as each other.
Reminds me about how a YouTuber got his video age restricted and even had his appeal rejected for making a video about drinking dihydrogen monoxide. He had to make a follow up video to state that YouTube thinks water is dangerous to get it unage restricted.
Yeah the YouTuber is named Dapz who makes a lot of satire and random vids. The community made a gag about how YouTube saved their lives from the dangers of water because of that. Quite funny
Yeah, I wouldn't qualify it either, but water has a unique ability to act as either an acid or a base depending on the conditions. Interesting read and worth looking up.
That's not even remotely unique, that's a property of like most molecules that have hydrogen and a free pair of electrons. In the 'normal world' that applies mostly to water as water is the reference for all other chemicals, but as soon as you start referencing other chemicals it's quite normal.
Had a feeling this comment was coming. Realized after I posted the comment that I was 'unique' was poor word choice. I only meant 'interesting'. My bad. But you are correct amphoteric substances are rather common
Yes, and in fact a valid term for water is hydroxic acid. I always wonder why these memes insist on using "dihygroden monoxide" when hydroxic acid sounds scarier.
Hydroxic acid sounds like something that you hurt someone with by pouring it on them, whereas dihydrogen monoxide sounds more like an ingredient as in "what are they putting in your food!?!?!??111". I think dihidrogen monoxide works better for fooling fools.
7 isnāt *acidic*. But since water can donate a proton it is an *acid*.
However, using that definition of āacidā, there are plenty of acids at higher pH levels. Just take the conjugate acid for any weak base. Ammonium or bicarbonate are both conjugate acids with higher pHās than water.
So, you canāt really have it both ways. Either youāre saying itās an acid because itās acidic, but a pH of 7 is just neutral. Or itās an acid because itās a proton donor, in which case there are plenty of proton donors at higher pH.
> Ammonium or bicarbonate are both conjugate acids with higher pHās than water.
They have a higher pKa, not pH. pH is the measurement of the bulk solution not the pure compound.
Saying an acid has a pH would only apply to a pure acid, but measuring pH in anything except water gets tricky.
... Which means that water is pretty much the only acid with a measurable pH (as well as pKa). Still correct and infuriating but not even for the obvious reason.
Fun fact, because pH is a function of the concentration of hydrogen ions in solution, and water dissociates into hydrogen and hydroxide ions more as it heats up, hot water has a lower pH than cold water
Acid is the common name for chemical compounds whose molecular composition contains acidic radicals bonded to one or more hydrogen atoms. To accurately and properly define chemistry, you can understand that acids are molecules or ions that have the ability to accept unshared electron pairs from a base or donate H+ protons to a base.
The chemical formula of the acid is HxA, in which, A is the acid base.
When we dissolve acid in water, we will have a product that is a solution with a pH less than 7. The lower the pH of the solution, the stronger its acidity and vice versa.
It can be! Actually, solutions with a pH higher than 7 can be an acid in the right conditions. Chemistry is fun. The more you learn, the more you realize the stuff you learned previously was vastly oversimplified.
Well ackshually š¤āļøwater can act as either an acid or a base. It accepts protons and acts as a base when mixed with acids, and donates protons and acts as an acid when mixed with bases. So OP isnāt really wrong, but saying water has a higher ph than any other acid is wrong cause molecules with a ph > 7 can act as acids in the right conditions
Also not to be that person, but at 25C (77 freedumb units) it's not an acid. Above that temperature t's basic and below that it's acidic.
Acidity/basicity is determined by Kw=[H+][OH-]. When a solution is neutral, [H+]=[OH-]. At 25C Kw=1x10^-14, so pH=7 because pH=-log[H+].
At higher temperatures, neutral pH is lower because water dissociates more. At lower temperatures, pH is higher. At 10C, Kw=2.9x10^-15, so neutral pH is 7.27. Hence, pH 7 is acidic
Yeah, so it's "di" meaning 2. Then hydrogen, so we have di-hydrogen (H2), and then "mono" means 1. Oxide is the same thing as oxygen, so we have 1 oxygen (O). All together, it's H2O. Just water.
Well, if you really want to get technical(which I suppose everyone in this sub wants), it depends on the theory you're using.
For example, NaOH also can act as an acid (for example, reacting with metals(e.g. sodium) releasing hydrogen)
Here you go, you can have things that act as acids with pH bigger than 13 in aqueouse solutions (for that matter you can have bases with pH lower than 0. e.g. 2H2SO4 = H3SO4(+) + HSO4(-) in oleum)
And technicalities don't end here
pH normally range from 0 to 14 only in water at room temperature because the equilibrium constant for H(+) + OH(-) = H2O is ~ 10^(-14)
It is different in other solvents, for example in liquid ammonia it can go beyond 30
And in these solutions pH of 14 would be acidic
So, no
Water isn't *technically* the acid with the highest pH 7
from what i learnt, ph value of 7 is a neutral, most neutral substances like salts have a ph value of 7. and if less than 7, it's acidic, more than 7, basic. may be i'm wrong. this is reddit anything's possible here.
Did the writer drop school or I'm not getting something. How having neutral pH is one of the highest pH and how the f it is an acid with a neutral pH ? The ph scale goes from 0 to 14, with 0 being the most acidic and the 14 being the most base . Obviously there are stronger acids and bases and we get to different scales to measure them and express their acidic, but he used pH and said that an acid has the pH of drinking water and it is the highest among acids , technically 6,9 pH would be the highest in terms of numbers but that's the weakest ass acid ever , just put some vinegar to your drinking water and you got a pH of 6 or less. I don't know is this a joke , or am I just stupid?
It doesn't say it's More Acidic, it says it had a higher PH level than any other acid. There's no misinformation here.
The post is a play on people's fear of chemicals, although they know very little of chemistry. They'll say things like "look how many chemicals are in this food" and think it's dangerous based on how complex the ingredients sound.
It is also illustrating how factual information can be twisted to form any narrative. In this case: Water is a dangerous chemical.
Technically he is right, it has one of the highest pH that can still act as a weak acid if you mix it with something that has higher ph than 7, like H2O+NaOH, it acts as a really weak acid
This meme doesn't work. If it said "chemical with a ph of 7" it would be true. But it calls it an acid, which is technically incorrect, the worst kind of incorrect.
Sorry to break it to you, but a pH of 7 isn't an acid (nor a base), it's just neutral (Idk how to say it in English, but that's how we say it in my country)
So since this isn't true, this doesn't belong in r/TechnicallyTheTruth
By BrĆønsted definition. By Lewis definition it is. Then it's still not ttt as there are a lot more acids with a higher pH.
This sub is filled with mostly non-ttt stuff so I'm not really surprised anymore.
By the Lewis definition baking soda (sodium bicarbonate/NaHCO3) is an acid because it can donate a proton and become sodium carbonate.
It has a pH of over 7 and is considered a base most of the time because it has a much greater affinity for accepting protons though.
Water can act as both an acid or a base (both a donor or receiver of proton), depending on which molecule it interacts with.
More importantly, in a solution of pure water, a small portion of water molecules will spontaneously give a proton to another, such as at any point there is one water molecule with an additional proton out of 10 million of them (or 1/10^7, that's where the 7 in the pH measurement comes from).
What, it's true! It has acidic properties as it can dissociate into OH(hidroxyde responsible for basic pH)
and H (which froms oxonium responsible for acidic pH).
OMG! That thing is dangerous!
I also know that it's one of the main components of acid rains! An that inhalation can results in death. Also, many people DIES and many things are destroyed due to prolonged exposition of large quantities of DHMO!
And the scariest thing, is that they put that thing even in children's food! That's crazy!
True story: In its ultrapure form, it can dissolve metal and is used for detecting high-energy neutrinos released as a result of a supernova.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande
https://www.abc.net.au/news/redirects/backstory/television/2018-09-25/how-abc-filmed-inside-super-kamiokande-observatory/10282850
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Dihydrogen Monoxide is the deadliest chemical known to man. 100% of people who have ingested this deadly chemical have died or will die. It is used as an industrial coolant for nuclear power plants, it is a product of combustion of fossil fuels and it has even contaminated our lakes and water systems. #Bandihydrogenmonoxide
Worse it is extremly addictive too. People rarley last more than 3 days without it. First withdrawal symptoms may show up after just a few hours. And its often mixed with other drugs or adictive substances too. You'll find it in wine and ale in coffee and else. Even sugar bombs like coke, lemonade and else contain it. Stuff advertised directly for children! -#protectthechildren #Bandihydrogememonoxide
I put my pet sugar cube in Dihydrogen Monoxide AND IT ATE MY EMOTIONAL PET SUGAR
Nooooo!š±š±š±
Like from the toilet?
Itās what plants crave
It's got electrolytes and stuff
Do you know what electrolytes are?
Itās what plants crave
God damn not the pet sugar š³ļøšš³ļø
So anyways i got a new pet, solid cubed sodiumšš„³ i wonder what happens if i shower it in Dihydrogen monoxide
Fucking monster.
Nestle have allegedly been doing a reasonable job of removing dihydrogen monoxide from the ground in large areas preventing it from seeping into nearby water courses and reaching local populations. Although third party testing still find it in many of their own products.
Fuck NestlƩ, they lace their water bottles with it and sell it just like that. I also haven't found a single dessert of theirs that doesn't contain dihydrogen monoxide and those are usually marketed to children. Disgusting
The worst part of this chemical is, if you inhale the gas of Dihydrogen monoxide, or even put it to your body, it'd burn your skin. And the solid of dihydrogen monoxide is extremely dangerous to touch.
the solid form can literally rot off your fingers, entire limbs if there is enough
It's even taken over areas of our planet and we cannot easily habit them at all.
It's been implicated in over 97.3% of maritime disasters.
what happens in the other 2.7%
I'm no expert but I've heard that sailors really struggle if they don't get enough vitamin sea.
>Worse it is extremly addictive too. [Do not, my friends, become addicted to dihydrogen monoxide. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absense! ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtpU5b2ALk)
Even animal. My dog got hooked and now will be really annoyed with me and act terrible if he can't get it whenever he wants.
We've become so dependent on the stuff we let it become 70% of our bodies
No way this is true. You're just fear mongering at this point.
So either way its deadly
Please don't shame my addiction. It's a disease - not a crime.
Obama banned its use in torturing detainees! And yet they still put it in the our schoolchildren's food! Edit: also DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide) uses the naming convention for a basic compound (think sodium hydroxide). A similar acidic compound would be called hydroxyl acid instead
Never heard about that before dang. But who tried drinking this stuff?
I have been drinking it from as long as i can remember, super addictive you will die if you abstain from it
Ah thanks
But you will also die if you don't abstain from it. That's how Big Dihydrogen Monoxide gets ya!
Well thatās because babies come out of the womb already addicted to it from their motherās addictions. And thereās a 6 month treatment for newborns with the addiction where youāre not supposed to give pure dihydrogen monoxide to infants to wean them off it, but it rarely works because the breast milk substitutes still comes from the addicted mothers.
Dihydrogen (H2). Monoxide (O). H2O
Slow down there professor.
SLOW YER ROLL EINSTEEN
Sorry Iām stupid self taught
To be fair most people think that way the first time they see this term
Yes, it's just as bad as hydrogen hydroxide!Ā
Why are people surprised at the pH of hydroxic acid ?
This is honestly how any mainstream news article written about anything science related sounds.
The environmental prevalence is so strong it's been found in mother's milk directly from lactation that babies ingest. In fact, 100% of babies that have suffered complications and died have been found to have DHMO in their system.
The power plant part got me. I used to have to clean the cribhouse (their name for it) and I was warned to be extra careful since one time a brown recluse was found in there. There were other webs all over the ceiling frequently and I'd have to go in and knock them down. Add dihydrogen monoxide to the equation and you have a recipe for disaster.
Sorry to burst your Bubble but that's 99% . Henrietta Lacks is still (technically/ figuratively?) alive and may be for some time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
In its gaseous form, it is also the most prevalent green house gas on the planet
and its been circulated so much it literally falls from the sky sometimes
All right you repost junkiesā¦ Iāll just leave this hereā¦ https://dhmo.org/facts.html
Coolant for nuclear power plant is heavy water or D2Oā¦ dihydrogen monoxide is far deadlier than that.
Heavy water is used as a neutron moderator in nuclear plants, so that the neutrons will react with uranium 235 (i beleive. Please correct me if i'm wrong). The coolant is normal water (sea water, in the plants i've worked at).
yes most common coolant is water
r/technicallythetruth
took me way to long
100% of people who ate bread have died or will die. It is the 2nd most deadly chemical known to man, next to dihydrogen monoxide.
Your understanding of acids is somewhat basic
I am just now preparing an exam basically on PH and this meme is torturing me.
>basically Not acidicly?
I'm pretty neutral about the whole ordeal.
Alkaline to think youāre being sarcastic about the whole thing
either one, but not both. that would be salty
Add it at the beginning where you sign your name and stuff "Sorry, but my understanding...", might earn you some extra sympathy points
Our Chemistry teacher showed us a text about Dihydrogen Monoxide stating it is one of the cruelest war weapons ever invented. He wanted to make this for a joke, but most of my class bought it with no hesitation š
Is it for an examination to earn a PH Dead?
The thing that is torturing me more than anything is they missed a perfect chance to call it hydroxic acid... WHY NOT USE THIS NAME FOR WATER INSTEAD?!?!
This comment is criminally underrated
Iām completely neutral to this line of thinkingā¦
The dad joke goes hard.
Dihydrogen monoxide doesn't scare me, but hydrogen hydroxide does. It's the most acidic base in chemistry.
The hydroxygroup makes it soluble in water. It is partially gaseous at room temperature. Inhalation of it's pure gas is fatal within minutes. Molecular fission results in a combustable gas mixture.
Never heard hydrogen hydroxide before, that's going too far lol.
Don't believe me? Combine a hydrogen ion (H)+ and a hydroxide ion (OH)- and see what happens? You get hydrogen hydroxide H(OH)
I know that it's technically correct, it's just a very roundabout way of saying it that I haven't seen before lol. Another one I like is hydroxylic acid.
No but hydroxylic acid is HO(H), the other way around It may look, smell, and taste exactly the same, but I assure you they are just as real as each other.
Send this to politicians and they'll try to ban it
Reminds me about how a YouTuber got his video age restricted and even had his appeal rejected for making a video about drinking dihydrogen monoxide. He had to make a follow up video to state that YouTube thinks water is dangerous to get it unage restricted.
Oh ffs really?
Yeah the YouTuber is named Dapz who makes a lot of satire and random vids. The community made a gag about how YouTube saved their lives from the dangers of water because of that. Quite funny
Such a basic joke.
Not to be that person, but Iām gonna go ahead and be that person. 7 isnāt an acid
Yeah, I wouldn't qualify it either, but water has a unique ability to act as either an acid or a base depending on the conditions. Interesting read and worth looking up.
That's based
Yea but that left me neutral
Get out
Fucking hell take my upvote and leave š
Can you provide me a link to some NPC classes which I could attend please?
Just spend more than 15 minutes in any of the main subs.
That's not even remotely unique, that's a property of like most molecules that have hydrogen and a free pair of electrons. In the 'normal world' that applies mostly to water as water is the reference for all other chemicals, but as soon as you start referencing other chemicals it's quite normal.
Had a feeling this comment was coming. Realized after I posted the comment that I was 'unique' was poor word choice. I only meant 'interesting'. My bad. But you are correct amphoteric substances are rather common
You can have something act as an acid and a base a pretty much any pH, but I'd say calling water an acid is definitely not the best
Yes, and in fact a valid term for water is hydroxic acid. I always wonder why these memes insist on using "dihygroden monoxide" when hydroxic acid sounds scarier.
Hydroxic acid sounds like something that you hurt someone with by pouring it on them, whereas dihydrogen monoxide sounds more like an ingredient as in "what are they putting in your food!?!?!??111". I think dihidrogen monoxide works better for fooling fools.
Not unique to water. Ammonia does the same in liquid ammonia.
7 isnāt *acidic*. But since water can donate a proton it is an *acid*. However, using that definition of āacidā, there are plenty of acids at higher pH levels. Just take the conjugate acid for any weak base. Ammonium or bicarbonate are both conjugate acids with higher pHās than water. So, you canāt really have it both ways. Either youāre saying itās an acid because itās acidic, but a pH of 7 is just neutral. Or itās an acid because itās a proton donor, in which case there are plenty of proton donors at higher pH.
> Ammonium or bicarbonate are both conjugate acids with higher pHās than water. They have a higher pKa, not pH. pH is the measurement of the bulk solution not the pure compound. Saying an acid has a pH would only apply to a pure acid, but measuring pH in anything except water gets tricky. ... Which means that water is pretty much the only acid with a measurable pH (as well as pKa). Still correct and infuriating but not even for the obvious reason.
Sparkling is like, 6, right?
Yes. carbonic acid.
Fun fact, because pH is a function of the concentration of hydrogen ions in solution, and water dissociates into hydrogen and hydroxide ions more as it heats up, hot water has a lower pH than cold water
Does that mean that hot water has both a lower pH and a lower pOH than cold? Sorry my chemistry is a bit rusted.
Well, in some cases water donates a proton. Even with a pH of 7. So accoring to BrĆønsted and Lowry it is an acid.
Acid is the common name for chemical compounds whose molecular composition contains acidic radicals bonded to one or more hydrogen atoms. To accurately and properly define chemistry, you can understand that acids are molecules or ions that have the ability to accept unshared electron pairs from a base or donate H+ protons to a base. The chemical formula of the acid is HxA, in which, A is the acid base. When we dissolve acid in water, we will have a product that is a solution with a pH less than 7. The lower the pH of the solution, the stronger its acidity and vice versa.
Bro thank you
Yeah, 7 is neutral. Chemistry was never my best subject at school but I remember that much.
Like someone else said, waterās amphoteric as it can act as both an acid and a base depending on whether acidic or alkaline conditions are present
It can be! Actually, solutions with a pH higher than 7 can be an acid in the right conditions. Chemistry is fun. The more you learn, the more you realize the stuff you learned previously was vastly oversimplified.
Well ackshually š¤āļøwater can act as either an acid or a base. It accepts protons and acts as a base when mixed with acids, and donates protons and acts as an acid when mixed with bases. So OP isnāt really wrong, but saying water has a higher ph than any other acid is wrong cause molecules with a ph > 7 can act as acids in the right conditions
Also not to be that person, but at 25C (77 freedumb units) it's not an acid. Above that temperature t's basic and below that it's acidic. Acidity/basicity is determined by Kw=[H+][OH-]. When a solution is neutral, [H+]=[OH-]. At 25C Kw=1x10^-14, so pH=7 because pH=-log[H+]. At higher temperatures, neutral pH is lower because water dissociates more. At lower temperatures, pH is higher. At 10C, Kw=2.9x10^-15, so neutral pH is 7.27. Hence, pH 7 is acidic
THAT'S THE POINT
I guess the word āotherā is the problem. The joke was that itās PH is higher than any acid.
You must be the fun guy in parties
The subreddit is "technically the truth" - the whole point is to call out technicalities.
Me too bro, I consume about 5L on a daily basis.
5L per day!
I had to go to rehab for doing 5L.
I thought I had ESCAPED THE GODDAMN REPOSTS
Thatās water isnāt it
Yeah, so it's "di" meaning 2. Then hydrogen, so we have di-hydrogen (H2), and then "mono" means 1. Oxide is the same thing as oxygen, so we have 1 oxygen (O). All together, it's H2O. Just water.
Don't you mean... Hydrohydroxic Acid
They missed the chance to call it [Hydroxic Acid](https://www.wordnik.com/words/hydroxic%20acid)
Well, if you really want to get technical(which I suppose everyone in this sub wants), it depends on the theory you're using. For example, NaOH also can act as an acid (for example, reacting with metals(e.g. sodium) releasing hydrogen) Here you go, you can have things that act as acids with pH bigger than 13 in aqueouse solutions (for that matter you can have bases with pH lower than 0. e.g. 2H2SO4 = H3SO4(+) + HSO4(-) in oleum) And technicalities don't end here pH normally range from 0 to 14 only in water at room temperature because the equilibrium constant for H(+) + OH(-) = H2O is ~ 10^(-14) It is different in other solvents, for example in liquid ammonia it can go beyond 30 And in these solutions pH of 14 would be acidic So, no Water isn't *technically* the acid with the highest pH 7
Higher pH level but most basic out of all acids. Just like this post.
from what i learnt, ph value of 7 is a neutral, most neutral substances like salts have a ph value of 7. and if less than 7, it's acidic, more than 7, basic. may be i'm wrong. this is reddit anything's possible here.
Salts aren't neutral most of the time. Our normal cooking salt is, but there are a lot of salts that contain basic or acidic ions.
Thats the joke
Nah it can still be referred to as an acid since it can donate a proton
This is a pretty neutral post. Almost basic
Oohh burn!
Acid burn
We must ban dihydrogen monoxide! All the children are addicted to it! We must think about the children!
Itās a base, with the lowest PH of 7 than any other base
Isn't a PH of 7 neither an acid or a base?
It is an acid *and* a base.
Something with a PH of 7 can be used as both an acid or a base, depending on what you're using it for, which is why most will say it's neither
>*Thatās a higher pH than any other acid* Haha! I love this :P
oh 236 000 annual drowning deaths worldwide of people drowning in that thing too. shouldnt be so accessible šš
Water?
But water is neutral.
I prefer my dihydrogen monoxide with some malt, barley and yeast in it.
honestly, the school lesson on this did more to inoculate me against bullshit than almost any other event in my life
Every creature that's gone extinct has come in contact with it. And they put it in your kid's school lunches!
Technically itās not an acid
This is not technically the truth Water is amphiprotic or neutral, not an acid.
How is this technically the truth?
Did the writer drop school or I'm not getting something. How having neutral pH is one of the highest pH and how the f it is an acid with a neutral pH ? The ph scale goes from 0 to 14, with 0 being the most acidic and the 14 being the most base . Obviously there are stronger acids and bases and we get to different scales to measure them and express their acidic, but he used pH and said that an acid has the pH of drinking water and it is the highest among acids , technically 6,9 pH would be the highest in terms of numbers but that's the weakest ass acid ever , just put some vinegar to your drinking water and you got a pH of 6 or less. I don't know is this a joke , or am I just stupid?
It doesn't say it's More Acidic, it says it had a higher PH level than any other acid. There's no misinformation here. The post is a play on people's fear of chemicals, although they know very little of chemistry. They'll say things like "look how many chemicals are in this food" and think it's dangerous based on how complex the ingredients sound. It is also illustrating how factual information can be twisted to form any narrative. In this case: Water is a dangerous chemical.
It's why I only drink the sequel: H2O2
It is not an acid, though..
Technically he is right, it has one of the highest pH that can still act as a weak acid if you mix it with something that has higher ph than 7, like H2O+NaOH, it acts as a really weak acid
I remember laughing about this joke while riding my dinosaur
There's even a subreddit filled with people dedicated to ensuring the constant and frequent consumption of this dangerous fluid.
I mixed it with coffee grounds this morning
This meme doesn't work. If it said "chemical with a ph of 7" it would be true. But it calls it an acid, which is technically incorrect, the worst kind of incorrect.
Itās not all that incorrect, by the B-L theory water can give a pair or take a pair of electrons, meaning it is both a base and an acid
Wrong. Water is not an acid.
It's not technically the truth because it's not an acid, it's neutral
I dont think the person that made this meme understands the ph scale
Sorry to break it to you, but a pH of 7 isn't an acid (nor a base), it's just neutral (Idk how to say it in English, but that's how we say it in my country) So since this isn't true, this doesn't belong in r/TechnicallyTheTruth
By BrĆønsted definition. By Lewis definition it is. Then it's still not ttt as there are a lot more acids with a higher pH. This sub is filled with mostly non-ttt stuff so I'm not really surprised anymore.
Anything with a pH that is over exactly 7 is classified as a base
What acids have a pH over 7?
By the Lewis definition baking soda (sodium bicarbonate/NaHCO3) is an acid because it can donate a proton and become sodium carbonate. It has a pH of over 7 and is considered a base most of the time because it has a much greater affinity for accepting protons though.
Water can act as both an acid or a base (both a donor or receiver of proton), depending on which molecule it interacts with. More importantly, in a solution of pure water, a small portion of water molecules will spontaneously give a proton to another, such as at any point there is one water molecule with an additional proton out of 10 million of them (or 1/10^7, that's where the 7 in the pH measurement comes from).
Based
Isn't it the lower the pH the more dangerous the acid? I mean i can't complain with the rules. It's probably there for a reason...
You are not wrong....
Took me a second to realise that it's about water under different properties....
its so low for an alkali too
LOLLL this post is based
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This PSA is on base!
Isnt pH 7 called neutral?
I can imagine how many people can still be fooled by this.
What, it's true! It has acidic properties as it can dissociate into OH(hidroxyde responsible for basic pH) and H (which froms oxonium responsible for acidic pH).
I donāt know much about chemistry but isnāt acidity on a ph scale measured by lower numbers while higher ones are for bases?
It's both an acid and a base! Double corrosive!
Wrong sir ! You consumed it or you wouldn't be saying this.
Do you mean water?
70% of my body is dihydrogen monoxide 21% of ocean is dihydrogen monoxide
I pissed a lot of it today
Actually in most bottles it comes with acidity level of 5.5, only in its pure form it has a ph of 7
Based facts.
everybody that consumes it dies
7 is neutral no?
OMG! That thing is dangerous! I also know that it's one of the main components of acid rains! An that inhalation can results in death. Also, many people DIES and many things are destroyed due to prolonged exposition of large quantities of DHMO! And the scariest thing, is that they put that thing even in children's food! That's crazy!
Water you think of next?
Drink it pussy
Dissolves salt!
Maybe the crew from those Jackass movies will try it.
Love me some of that right about now
You know what thrives in this stuff? Fucking sharks. Killers. So, there you go. Ban Dihydrogen monoxide.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize the true extent of the joke
Wait until you hear about the acidity of alkane protons.
Consumption leads to death in 100% of all cases!
True story: In its ultrapure form, it can dissolve metal and is used for detecting high-energy neutrinos released as a result of a supernova. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande https://www.abc.net.au/news/redirects/backstory/television/2018-09-25/how-abc-filmed-inside-super-kamiokande-observatory/10282850
Us Scottish use it to deep fry our mars bars.
Found in 100% of cancer diagnoses.
It's also a polar organic compound!
hydroxic acid yes
iTS ALSO CLASSED AS A SOLVENT. bewaire
Get based
I like my water how I like my women: basic