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City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups
localhost00 writes "The city of Aliso Viejo, CA nearly banned foam cups when they learned they are produced from a substance known as 'dihydrogen monoxide.' A paralegal working for the city apparantly found a professionally designed web site put up to describe the dangerous properties of this chemical.
Apparantly, the report about Dihydrogen Monoxide was written by a then 14-year-old Nathan Zohner who was researching the gullibility of fifty ninth graders."
-Don
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It's actually a simple binary of Hydrogen and oxygen, so Hydrogen oxide is more correct.
I like hydrohydroxic acid because it's the term we used when talking to my old college president, a lawyer, who agreed that is was quite dangerous. He was quite the classic lawyer... that shithead.
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And to watch your fucking language.
Technically O is 1s(2) 2S(2) 2P(4)
H is 1S(1)
Gven that the exact location of an electron cannot be determined with out affectsing it (heisenburg) we define teh electron orbitial probability paths based on the quantum energy states they respersent and refer to them as shells
Attractve force between and two objects is inversly proportional as to the square of the seperating distance
The actual electronegativity delta between O and H disregarding all other factors is 1.34 not 1.4
The hydrogen bond is caused by the differental displacement of the Oxigen's P shell and its affinity for the Hydrogren's single 1S electron.
Without the aformentioned polar covalency ( see your post) which is just a fancy term for a covalent bond with SIGNIFIGANT ionic properties ( for those of you who do not know only 2 atoms of the exacy same electronegativities will ever share a truly covalent bond ever other bond exhibits some level of ionic interaction. Conversly the archtypical ionic bond NaCl shows some signigigant covalent properties also) the increase in potential energy from the removal of an S1 electron would be a much higher value, however due to the ionic nature of the polar covalent bond the said delta increase is offset by the Hydrogen ion (just a proton in the vast majority of cases else we are deling with isotopes) forming a bond with another H2O molecule forming the H3O+ ion.
Finally I will note again that the presence of signifigant numbers of these ion (HO- and H3O+) in pure water is why i stated
with me so far Mr Chemist?
Now are you a chemist or a student who will be when he grows up one day? Not to be terribly harsh but when you put a smiley after you IAAC and use wiki for citations on scientific matters I start to have my doubts. Am I a chemist? Hardly but I certainly did take grad classes in both Chem and Materials sciences. I deal with and build laser systems (so I know a little something practically about atomic valances and their quantium states) as part of my part time job as a security consultant and the rest of my time I spend in seminary or writing medical database applications.
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George is correct...Eric and I wrote one version in 1989 at UCSC as a spoof of all the knee-jerk environmental activism, we printed up a slew of these flyers and spread them all over campus. (specifically, the Styrofoam reference is in response to the successful campus-wide student campaign to ban Styrofoam from our dorm cafeterias) Craig then edited it and massaged the text for HTML in around 1992 or so (the link george gives above) Obviously not the only time this idea has been thought of, but ours was an "independent invention" for us and our particular copy has been circulated as email spam, printed in Chemical Engineering News, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, etc. (the latter two with our permission) and seems to have a life of it's own. Eric posted the original text here: to rec.humor.funny back in 1990