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.
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.
Well, for as much as you use the chemical formula for water in your everyday human interactions, anyway
The bartender didn’t mind, since he has a sense of humor and understood he worked in an entertainment facility where people derive fun from saying and doing goofy things with friends and acquaintances, and this isn’t even be the weirdest thing he has heard a patron say this week.
Little Billy was a chemist
Little Billy is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4
For those interested in learning about uranium peroxide: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Uranium-peroxide
Suprisingly mild and not very reactive. And I wondered if this even exists.
Uranium - it makes things safer!
it is a confirmed human carcinogen.
See, that’s the good stuff
Thanks. I was wondering if it was a liquid or not. Crystaline solid.
Ok, but definitely don’t drink it if it’s liquid then.
ty for the link, i learned that all h2o4u molecules look like a tiny happy frog jumping at your face
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
Don’t want to drink pure H₂O either…
No? What would it be like?
Probably tasting remarkably bland and would likely mess with your electrolyte and mineral levels.
Isn’t it just distilled water?
Like in the other comments, you can drink distilled water as long as you only drink a “normal amount”.
It’s still an interesting thing to know, that you actually starve when drinking large quantities of distilled water (well, in theory since you have other stuff in your body that enriches the water with minerals anyway).
Through osmosis the cells on your mucosae will try to equalise the mineral content between the water and themselves. But since distilled water has no minerals they will take in so much water that they burst.
If you would drink liters and liters of distilled water, the cells responsible for taking in minerals will all be gone and you starve long-term.
Short-term you die from organ failure anyway, with your body desperately trying to keep in the minerals. This is the same as the good old water intoxication. Just that you reach that threshold faster with distilled water.
