Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide:
Ã, a.. is also known as hydroxl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
Ã, b.. contributes to the "greenhouse effect."
Ã, c.. in its gaseous state it may cause severe burns.
Ã, d.. contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
Ã, e.. accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
Ã, f.. may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Ã, g.. has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
Contamination is reaching epidemic proportions!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
Ã, a.. as an industrial solvent and coolant.
Ã, b.. in nuclear power plants.
Ã, c.. in the production of styrofoam.
Ã, d.. as a fire retardant.
Ã, e.. in many forms of cruel animal research.
Ã, f.. in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
Ã, g.. as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.
Yes, yes. H2O. Water.
Sorry, been having a serious rant in another thread, felt like being flip.
Wow, that sounds like nasty stuff!
I can't believe they put it in food.
This actually nearly made US law, before someone realised how dumb it was.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1176710,00.html
And it's in the Guardian, so it must be true!
I wonder if you might have read my post at elysiun? Just a weird coincedence?
/me needs to get rid of his own body and swidth to a (even) more robotic one, to get rid of DHMO, which contributes most part of his current body!
We must also invent machines using nano technology to avoid the natural formation of DHMO!
I don't get the "natural formation" bit.. it exists naturally, but it isn't naturally formed (on Earth). That happens only when you burn hydrogen + oxygen. Otherwise it just cycles through its different forms.
Heh shouldn't chemical reactions within animal bodies, mixing acids with alkali, etc. be considered natural. ;)
Well natural is an ambigorous word...
That is indeed natural, but they don't chemically produce water.. they just mix it with other substances and the output isn't pure water.
Heh who said "pure" ? ;)
QuoteSorry, been having a serious rant in another thread, felt like being flip.
Some people just don't know how to have fun. :'(
Read the other thread (what....mad), this IS fun. Sorry to spoil your fun so soon, but it looks like everyone else was on to ya anyway.
You almost fooled me. Till I realised it was H20... bah... I fell for it.. I feel stupid.
Ashen: I don't like you.
I read the title and thought, " think I need that stuff to not die" but I read anyways and was almost fooled.
Hope that's sarcasm, 'cause I actually quite like YOU. Trust me, I grow on you. Like a rash.
Hah. pretty funny stuff.
And LGM, you're a dumbass. :P
Quote from: juncmodule on Wed 05/05/2004 02:31:20Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Shut up, dude... you're scaring me...
EDIT:
Ooh-ha-ha...
You had me fooled... yoooooooooo bastard.....
Go get Hydrogen Peroxide and have some fun. Trust me, kids, there are a lot of fun things you can do with this stuff. You can bleach your hair, your beard, your eyebrows, your chest hair, back hair, your asshair, ball hair and even your pubic hair. Of coarse, doing your lower regions may leave you tingling for the rest of the day.
Hydrogen Peroxide is good.. But why don't they call it Hydrogen Dioxide? It's forumla is just H202, right??
RIGHT??
So... we should change H2O by beer in our diets? ???
Quote from: LilGryphMaster on Wed 05/05/2004 13:59:59
Hydrogen Peroxide is good.. But why don't they call it Hydrogen Dioxide? It's forumla is just H202, right??
RIGHT??
RIGHT!!!
hydrogen (su)peroxide, it means that it has one oxygen-thingy more than usual.
it's some special stuff ;)
QuoteSo... we should change H2O by beer in our diets? ???
Wouldn't work. Beer has H2O in it :P
Peroxide is speical, apparently...
http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml
Oh my God, there are people who actually FELL for this.
Origins:Ã, Ã,Â
In 1997, Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student at Eagle Rock Junior High School in Idaho Falls, based his science fair project on a report similar to the one reproduced above. Zohner's project, titled "How Gullible Are We?", involved presenting this reportÃ, about "the dangers of dihyrogen monoxide" to fifty ninth-grade students and asking them what (if anything) should be done about the chemical. Forty-three students favored banning it, six were undecided, and only one correctly recognized that 'dihydrogen monoxide' is actually H2O - plain old water. Zohner's analysis of the results he obtained won him first prize in the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair; garnered him scads of attention from newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, universities, and congresspeople; and prompted the usual round of outcries about how our ignorant citizenry doesn't read critically and can be easily misled. In other words, a tempest in a teapot.
Zohner's project wasn't original: spoof petitions about dihydrogen monoxide and other innocuous "dangers" have been circulating for years, and Zohner based his project on a bogus report that was already making the rounds of the Internet. Moreover, Zohner's target audience was ninth-graders, a group highly susceptible to allowing peer pressure to overwhelm critical thinking. Thrust any piece of paper at the average high school student with a suggestion about what the "correct" response to it should be, and peer pressure pretty much assures you'll get the answer you're looking for. Someone that age isn't very likely to read a friend's petition calling for the banning of whale hunting and critically evaluate the socio-economic and environmental impact of such a regulation. Instead, he's probably going to say to himself, "This issue is obviously important to my friend, and he must have some good reasons for circulating the petition, so I'll sign it."
That said, this example does aptly demonstrate the kind of fallacious reasoning that's thrust at us every day under the guise of "important information": how with a little effort, even the most innocuous of substances can be made to sound like a dangerous threat to human life. The next time you receive an ominous message such as the one warning you that sodium lauryl sulfate (a common foaming ingredient used in shampoos) causes cancer, with the "proof" being that this caustic chemical is also used to scrub garage floors, keep in mind that the very same thing could be said of another ubiquitous cleaning agent . . . dihydrogen monoxide.
Update:Ã, Ã, In March 2004 the California municipality of Aliso Viejo (a suburb in Orange County) came within a cat's whisker of falling for this hoax after a paralegal there convinced city officials of the danger posed by this chemical. The leg-pull got so far as a vote having been scheduled for the City Council on a proposed law that would have banned the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events because (among other things) they were made with DHMO, a substance that could "threaten human health and safety."
Quote from: LilGryphMaster on Wed 05/05/2004 13:59:59
Hydrogen Peroxide is good.. But why don't they call it Hydrogen Dioxide? It's forumla is just H202, right??
RIGHT??
Hydrogen Dioxide would be HO2, a very improbable combination. You might call H2O2 Dihydrogen Dioxide, but the convention is to not put a prefix on the first element unless you have to, so they call it Hydrogen Peroxide, meaning one oxygen for each hydrogen.
Quotec.. in its gaseous state it may cause severe burns.
Water vapor can burn me? I dun get it. Does that mean steam or somthing, because dihydrogen monoxide in its liquid state at boiling temp would do worse, eh?
Quote from: Ryukage on Thu 06/05/2004 16:50:01
Quote from: LilGryphMaster on Wed 05/05/2004 13:59:59
Hydrogen Peroxide is good.. But why don't they call it Hydrogen Dioxide? It's forumla is just H202, right??
RIGHT??
Hydrogen Dioxide would be HO2, a very improbable combination.Ã, You might call H2O2 Dihydrogen Dioxide, but the convention is to not put a prefix on the first element unless you have to, so they call it Hydrogen Peroxide, meaning one oxygen for each hydrogen.
improbable as in impossible...
Quote from: Rave on Thu 06/05/2004 17:25:56Water vapor can burn me? I dun get it. Does that mean steam or somthing, because dihydrogen monoxide in its liquid state at boiling temp would do worse, eh?
Yes, it does mean steam. That is H20 in a gaseous state. Water vapour (The stuff you get from a humidifier) is just very fine dropplets of water, so it's still technically liquid.
And steam burns worse than boiling water. I've got scars to proove it. :'(
I've heard this one a long time ago. :)
In the film Bone Collector, a woman is tied infront of a steam vent, and is blasted with it. They find her later and her face is melted.
Last time I checked, boiling water doesn't quite do that..
Boling water doesn't. Steam might.
This stuff is also lethal if you inhale it through your nose.
Damien.. That's what I just said ;-p
Yufster, that was already said in the original post -- lethal if inhaled.
And change your name back, for heaven's sake.
Damn. And No.
She just has abnormal testosterone(sp?) levels and would like to be considered a male for when she goes to Brittens so she's not the minority.