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A Water Molecule's Chemical Formula Isn't Really H20
hackwrench writes "According to this article in Physics News Update, a water molecule's chemical formula is really not H2O, at least from the perspective of neutrons and electrons interacting with the molecule for only attoseconds (less than 10-15 seconds). According to new and recent experiments, neutrons and electrons colliding with water for just attoseconds will see a ratio of hydrogen to oxygen of roughly 1.5 to 1, so a more accurate formula for water under these circumstances would be H1.5O."
Well, as long as it's still wet, there's no reason to panic.
More than enough BS
One of those 125% glasses, eh? They're supersizing everything these days.
The big deal is you'd end up with a glass 125% full of water.
Of course it's wrong! Now they'll have to update all the chemistry textbooks, and of course all the old editions will be worthless now. Ah HA!
;-P
What they don't tell you is that they got a bunch of other "corrections" under their sleeve. You know, because in a year or so they're going to need another excuse to roll out a new edition.
Quite similar to Microsoft's "pay us to upgrade, so you can patch up the bugs we created in the first place!" biz model, actually.
Just kidding!
Clearly their test samples were contaminated with dihydrogenmonoxide.
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Maybe they used an old Pentium processor...
=Smidge=
And if it was H2O.99999973 , we'd know what CPU they used to count it with....
Mabe cp30?
It can't be that, since water doesn't contain phosphorus.
C3PO:
C
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C = C - P = O
H-2-WHOA!
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> The big deal is you'd end up with a glass 125% full of water.
It keeps you from getting bogged down in the half-empty/half-full debate.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
H-2-0, H-3-0, H-1.5-0 I don't care.
But consider yourselves warned: Leave my caffeine molecule alone!
See this lengthy thread from years ago.
> The big deal is you'd end up with a glass 125% full of water.
Ah, but if you take a couple of sips, then you'll have a glass that
is three-quarters full and three-quarters empty. Get another glass
just like it, drink yet a few _more_ sips out of it, until it's
one-quarter full and one-quarter empty, pour them together, and the
glass will be full and not full. You know, the full glass that
cannot be empty is not the true full glass, and all that zen rot.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
for PC running at 200 Yhz with 256 Zettas of memory...
No, I think they meant 10-15 seconds. That can be simplified to -5 seconds. Of course they got such improbable results! They were using a negative value for time!
CCCP=0? hmm... I guess the Soviet Union did fall...