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[Bruce Bostwick]

That's what a chemist would tend to call it.  :D  (I had a chemistry  
teacher who used that as a lesson in acid-base chemistry, pointing out  
that any other hydroxide, particuarly an alkali metal hydroxide, would  
be a base, and hydrogen bonded to most other things, particularly  
halogens, likewise tended to form an acid.  I still sort of remember  
the orbital sequence -- 1s2, 2s2, 2p6 .. :)

On May 29, 2008, at 6:41 PM, John Horn wrote:

> I know.  That's what I was refering too, actually.
>
> - jmh
>
>
> On 5/29/08, Julia Thompson <degges at chiba.3jane.net> wrote:
>> The "warning" sites and e-mails are all about Dihydrogen Monoxide.   
>> Just
>> going with the flow on that one....
>>
>> 	Julia
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 29 May 2008, John Horn wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't it more technically correct to refer to it as "Hydrogen
>>> Hydroxide" seeing how it really should be HOH?  I've always thought
>>> that sounded nastier though I guess the other sounds more like CO.
>>>
>>> - jmh
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>

"Correct morality can only be derived from what man is—not from what  
do-gooders and well-meaning Aunt Nellies would like him to be."  --  
Robert A. Heinlein