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Click. Who's with me for helping to get this chemical out of our everyday lives?
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This is a urban legend that got started by a high school student who won a science fair project in 1997, his project really wasn't about Dihydrogen Monoxide, but how gullible people can be.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is simply the scientific name for plain ol water aka known as H 2 0 check out these web sites below http://www.funnytummy.com/humor/h2o.html http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/8185305.htm?1c http://www.snopes.com/toxins/dhmo.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4534017/ http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Dihydrogen%20Monoxide%20Hoax |
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....No.....don't listen to her......er...She's from the government!
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It's a hoax Jusork.
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quote: Almost. The 'warning' started well before then. The student (Nathan Zohner) just used it in his project. quote: Just so no one thinks we'd actually call it that, although dihydrogen monoxide follows IUPAC naming rules, we chemists wouldn't take anyone referring to water as anything but "water" seriously. |
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Well, I'm gonna do my part to help!
I'm gonna quit bathing, doing laundry, and washing dishes immediately!  And I understand there are plenty of other things to drink!  *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* "This year I resolve to cut down on coffee. Keeps me awake during staff meetings!" ~ Maxine |
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TIE, in this case, your "theyre coming t take me away" signature is VERY well used
___________________________________________________________________________ I lost my marbles. Luckily, marbles are sold at WalMart, for dirt cheap. |
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I'm just kidding, you guys...wow.
It's interesting though that nothing is actually unture. Simply by switching the name, we make it into something that sounds like we should get rid of it. I guess a joke like this just doesn't work with people as smart as those on answerpool. Nobody here is gullible enough? _______________ "Every beginning comes from some other beginning's end." - Semisonic |
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Why thank you Kael!
That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me! (And proud of it!  )*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* "This year I resolve to cut down on coffee. Keeps me awake during staff meetings!" ~ Maxine |
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A couple years ago I told my landlord that the most recent test of the well showed high levels of Dihydrogen Monoxide and that he might want to do something about it.
Astonished at this he started asking me how hard it would be to get to the city water. Well not to be put off I explained to him that the reports are that there is a lot of Dihydrogen Monoxide in the city mains as well, after all they get their supply from the ground, from wells like we do and we can pretty much assume that if our well has Dihydrogen Monoxide then the city's well would too. After pondering that for a moment, he asked me, "Is it safe?" I smiled, "Sure, Dihydrogen Monoxide is H20." Once he got it he laughed it off. Scary thing is he taught high school chemistry for about a million years. |
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1-Nil to David!
 Why is Winter the only time of the Year you can wear a tea cosy on your head and Nobody laughs at you? |
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I am not sure if I have entioned it before, but this summer I am working at a chemical engineering lab. Each of the students working in the lab is assignened to a different thing. One girl, her job is to make sure that the lab is safe. I asked her if she had heard about the new dangerous chemical recently discovered and that there was a websie she had to see. I showed her the website that jusork posted above. She got soooooooooooo mad at me.
~~~~~ The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories thatbecome legends. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountians of the Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.-The Wheel of Time |
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