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Drink it, I dare ya (mander.xyz)
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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They wanted to imply the C is for coconut and this is coconut water but really all they did to people that passed middle school (which you'll get to soon enough) is say "this is dicarbon monoxide."

I don't know what would happen if you were to drink C2O but it probably wouldn't be good, making this a drink marketed to idiots by idiots (marketing majors)

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 2 weeks ago

it’s a pretty unusual chemical

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Bad! Don't!

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

If you want an ELICHEM5320 that's on you!