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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So that's great that 'C'subscript-2'O' means dicarbon monoxide, what are the biologic implications of drinking dicarbon monoxide (for those of us who are only 10 and a half and haven't passed middle school yet)?

[-] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently it's not even really all that stable, so that whole container would rapidly decompose into probably carbon dioxide (CO2) and a bunch of pure carbon (think charcoal). At least that's my hunch. There is a Wikipedia article on the stuff, but it's pretty short, since it's a pretty unusual chemical (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicarbon_monoxide ).

CO2 is of course extremely common. I'd love to see what a chemist can describe about a bottle of C2O though!

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago

it’s a pretty unusual chemical

Yeah, I can't even find an SDS for it.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz -1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You can just say you don't know if you don't know lmao. Just funny you knowledge shamed someone while not knowing much about it yourself.

Cheers 😉

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

That was the ELI10, subsection "Basic Lab Safety."

If you want an ELICHEM5320 that's on you!

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Hi, I'd like the ELICHEM5320 pls

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 16 hours ago

That'll be $5000.

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