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charonn0@startrek.website · 122 pts · 48d (11 replies)

Little Johnny took a drink but now will drink no more

For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 52 pts · 48d

Neat, I've never seen that version before. The one I know is:

Johnny was a chemist's son
but Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H2O
was H2SO4.
grue@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 48d (6 replies)

Fun fact: unlike some other site that shall not be named, Lemmy's markdown can do subscripts!

Little Johnny took a drink
but now will drink no more
For what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4

plateee@piefed.social · 23 pts · 48d (5 replies)
> Little Johnny took a drink  
> but now will drink no more  
> For what he thought was H~2~O  
>  was H~2~SO~4~

Really? It's the squiggly to make subscript? I thought that was used for strike through?

charonn0@startrek.website · 22 pts · 48d

Two squiggles for strikethrough; one squiggle for subscript; and no squiggle for you!

grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 48d (3 replies)

Strikethrough is double-tilde double-squiggly.

sqw@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 47d (2 replies)

where's the reference for these?

grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 47d

I don't think it's complete, though; some you just have to discover for yourself (or guess from familiarity with Markdown on other platforms).

sqw@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 47d

ah , seems my client has some helpful shortcuts

cool stuff.

Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 48d

Strong acids are weak, you'd notice the boiling acid flavor and spit it out with the rest of your mouth lining right away.

ranzispa@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 48d (1 reply)

Doubt you'd die from drinking a bit of sulphuric acid, probably would spit it out as soon as you notice your tongue is burning anyway.

gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 43d

you could still get badly hurt if you swallow faster than you can spit it out

Etterra@discuss.online · 53 pts · 48d (1 reply)

Johnny was a corporate stooge,

but Johnny's words untrue;

what Johnny sold as H2O

was H2O4U.

Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d

Johnny knew not water

For he forgot vater

My father is he who speaks through me

And thus I express simply

That ain't water I just drank

It's getting dark, I'm gunna have one last wank

solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 48d (5 replies)

Is H2O4U chemically possibly? I feel like you could make a chain out of the oxygens and put hydrogen at both ends but I don't hear anything more that O3

Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 48d (2 replies)

Not as written. But uranyl peroxide is a thing.

There’s UO4·4(H2O) studtite and UO4·2(H2O) metastudtite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranyl_peroxide

Toes@ani.social · 10 pts · 47d

This is what i missed about old reddit the most.

Love it 😘

gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 43d

yeah lots of minerals can contain water. it's known as water of crystallization

TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 14 pts · 48d (1 reply)
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 48d

I don't want to be guy who needs to read the NMR spectra of this stuff.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 18 pts · 48d (12 replies)

Is H2O4U actually possible to synthesize? Is it stable?

Would it be a liquid at any reasonable temperatures?

Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 48d (8 replies)

Tetraoxidane (H2O4) is very unstable by itself, and I doubt adding a uranium into the mix would stabilize it

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 20 pts · 48d (4 replies)

Hm... I'm guessing that adding Uranium to that would make it quickly oxidize, and instead of H2O4U, you'd get mostly U3O8 (the most stable Uranium oxide) and a bunch of H2O and Hydrogen gas.

Fluke@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 48d (1 reply)

And a lot of heat. If I had to guess, I'd bet on that being a... "rather energetic" exothermic reaction.

Dpek@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 47d

What is heat but shaken atoms?

fartographer@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 48d (1 reply)

Surely if you shook the bottle well, the ingredients would recombine like a vinaigrette, and the intended flavor could be appreciated.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 48d

Refreshing!

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 48d (2 replies)

No way to know until you try

gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 43d (1 reply)

no way to know but a good way to guess

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 43d

By counting valence electrons?

hactar42@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 47d (2 replies)

Sounds like a good NileRed video

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 47d (1 reply)

I wonder if there's any Uranium-containing compoud that would be safe(ish) to drink... (In small amounts, of course.)

It would have to be something that holds onto the Uranium atoms very tightly and also passes right through you without getting absorbed. Hmm... But the radiation aspect is always going to be a problem. No matter what other atoms it's bonded to, Uranium will still be emitting a bit of alpha radiation -- no big deal when it's outside you since the outer layers of skin block most of it, but when it's inside you, there's nothing to block that radiation from damaging the cells of your digestive tract.

hactar42@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 47d

Read that in his voice

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 47d (1 reply)

Wouldn't that be uranic dihydrogen peroxide?

I'm pretty sure dioxide peroxide is not a thing.

vivalapivo@lemmy.today · -4 pts · 47d

Listen here, you piece of shit, the original image is h2o4u which reads as water for you. Stop inventing words

KenOh@feddit.online · 7 pts · 48d

Something something H2SO4

Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 47d

I'll boof that ish if you will

ddplf@szmer.info · -1 pts · 48d

Awww, the redditor by the name TheZyde understood the joke!