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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

From uphillbothways@kbin.social
kbin.social isn't a thing anymore

Dihydrogen monoxide isn’t a good name for water, especially in this context. Hydroxic acid or hydrogen hydroxide make much more sense. Water only splits into O2 and H2 under electrolysis, not due to acid/base chemistry. You have to be actively adding electrons. In solution, it dissociates into ion states as protons H+ and hydroxide OH-.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Both (but especially hydroxic acid) also have the added bonus of sounding scarier for the fake PSA about how dangerous it is 😁

Yeah, the successor to kbin is Mbin.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Technically (H~3~O)^+^ and related species rather than naked protons in solution, but chemistry is just a series of models nested dolled in on each other trying to approximate an intelligible description of a complex physical world, so H+^ works fine in many contexts to get you correct answers, but not always.