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startrek.website

Little Johnny took a drink but now will drink no more

For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

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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.
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gruereply
lemmy.world

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

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plateeereply
piefed.social
> 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?

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

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gruereply
lemmy.world

Strikethrough is double-tilde double-squiggly.

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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).

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ah , seems my client has some helpful shortcuts

cool stuff.

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

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ranzispareply
mander.xyz

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.

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

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discuss.online

Johnny was a corporate stooge,

but Johnny's words untrue;

what Johnny sold as H2O

was H2O4U.

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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

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sh.itjust.works

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

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This is what i missed about old reddit the most.

Love it 😘

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

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pawb.social

Is H2O4U actually possible to synthesize? Is it stable?

Would it be a liquid at any reasonable temperatures?

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OwOarchistreply
pawb.social

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.

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Flukereply
feddit.uk

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

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lemmy.world

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

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Anikireply
feddit.org

no way to know but a good way to guess

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OwOarchistreply
pawb.social

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.

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lemmy.world

Wouldn't that be uranic dihydrogen peroxide?

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

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

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

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