At 10:12 AM Thursday 5/29/2008, John Horn wrote: >On 5/26/08, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 23 May 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > >> Is Ice Cold Because Water Is A Polar Molecule? Maru > > > > On Wednesday, before our camping trip, I was instructed to label 2 bins > > for water. > > > > One was labeled "Dihydrogen Monoxide" and the other, "Water". > > > > At some point, I informed Dan that the Dihydrogen Monoxide bin was empty, > > but the Water bin had 6.5 gallons. > > > > Julia > > >Isn't it more technically correct to refer to it as "Hydrogen >Hydroxide" seeing how it really should be HOH?
How about "hydronium hydroxide," since the cation which makes the pH of pure water 7.0 is generally a hydrogen ion bonded to one (H3O+, the so-called "hydronium" ion) or as many as four unionized water molecules because of the polar character of the latter (coming full circle to the wisecrack which started this subthread . . . ). So we have in pure water a small number of molecules ionized to create pairs such as H3O+ OH-, H5O2+ OH-, H7O3+ OH-, and H9O4+ OH-. . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
