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[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 10:12 AM Thursday 5/29/2008, John Horn wrote:

>On 5/26/08, Julia Thompson <degges at chiba.3jane.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 May 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> >
> >> Is Ice Cold Because Water Is A Polar Molecule? Maru
> >
> > On Wednesday, before our camping trip, I was instructed to label 2 bins
> > for water.
> >
> > One was labeled "Dihydrogen Monoxide" and the other, "Water".
> >
> > At some point, I informed Dan that the Dihydrogen Monoxide bin was empty,
> > but the Water bin had 6.5 gallons.
> >
> >       Julia
>
>
>Isn't it more technically correct to refer to it as "Hydrogen
>Hydroxide" seeing how it really should be HOH?


How about "hydronium hydroxide," since the cation which makes the pH 
of pure water 7.0 is generally a hydrogen ion bonded to one (H3O+, 
the so-called "hydronium" ion) or as many as four unionized water 
molecules because of the polar character of the latter (coming full 
circle to the wisecrack which started this subthread . . . ).  So we 
have in pure water a small number of molecules ionized to create 
pairs such as H3O+ OH-, H5O2+ OH-, H7O3+ OH-, and H9O4+ OH-.


. . . ronn!  :)