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[Lightningfalcon]

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

Not to mention the severe burns that the vapor form causes.   Vapor that nuclear power plants emit into the air, I might add.   

[miauw62]

Icebergs are made of berg.

[Biowraith]

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

[Descan]

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

With a 5% margin of error.

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

The definition of definition is recursion.

[hops]

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

With a 5% margin of error.

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

The definition of definition is recursion.

What does recursion mean? :P

[SealyStar]

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

It is hydroxic acid to me. Everyone knows dihydrogen monoxide already. You can still trick them with this one, especially since it has the dreaded "acid" in it.

[misko27]

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

The definition of definition is recursion.

DEFINITION: a statement of the exact meaning of a word, esp. in a dictionary.

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

It is hydroxic acid to me. Everyone knows dihydrogen monoxide already. You can still trick them with this one, especially since it has the dreaded "acid" in it.

Is it acidic though? I thought it was neutral.

[SealyStar]

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

The definition of definition is recursion.

DEFINITION: a statement of the exact meaning of a word, esp. in a dictionary.

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

It is hydroxic acid to me. Everyone knows dihydrogen monoxide already. You can still trick them with this one, especially since it has the dreaded "acid" in it.

Is it acidic though? I thought it was neutral.

It is, but its composition can be described as if it were an acid

[Darvi]

Acidity isn't a boolean property, but a sliding scale from OHGODITBURNS to OHGODITBURNS(BUTFORENTIRELYDIFFERENTREASONS). So yeah, it's an acid, but also a base.

And don't get me started on zwitterions.

[Putnam]

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

The definition of definition is recursion.

DEFINITION: a statement of the exact meaning of a word, esp. in a dictionary.

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

It is hydroxic acid to me. Everyone knows dihydrogen monoxide already. You can still trick them with this one, especially since it has the dreaded "acid" in it.

Is it acidic though? I thought it was neutral.

It is, but its composition can be described as if it were an acid

Hydroxic acid/Hydrogen Hydroxide. It goes both ways!

[SealyStar]

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

The definition of definition is recursion.

DEFINITION: a statement of the exact meaning of a word, esp. in a dictionary.

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

It is hydroxic acid to me. Everyone knows dihydrogen monoxide already. You can still trick them with this one, especially since it has the dreaded "acid" in it.

Is it acidic though? I thought it was neutral.

It is, but its composition can be described as if it were an acid

Hydroxic acid/Hydrogen Hydroxide. It goes both ways!

Yeah but hydroxic acid sounds more menacing.

[Flying Dice]

Hydroxic acid/Hydrogen Hydroxide. It goes both ways!

Water, the immoral molecule: it has no sexual decency! Stop drinking water today if you aren't a hell-bound godless communist dedicated to the destruction of the nuclear family. Next time you feel the urge to drink a glass of the devil's tears, down a fifth of whiskey instead.

[SealyStar]

Hydroxic acid/Hydrogen Hydroxide. It goes both ways!

Water, the immoral molecule: it has no sexual decency! Stop drinking water today if you aren't a hell-bound godless communist dedicated to the destruction of the nuclear family. Next time you feel the urge to drink a glass of the devil's tears, down a fifth of whiskey instead.

Damned bipHuals.

[scrdest]

That one was one of the first things a colleague at my current job said to me.  She wasn't joking.

Another colleague more recently asked me what "definition" meant.  She wasn't joking either.

The definition of definition is recursion.

DEFINITION: a statement of the exact meaning of a word, esp. in a dictionary.

Dihydrogen Monoxide, I think. It's this really dangerous chemical - about 95% of the people who have consumed it are dead.

It is hydroxic acid to me. Everyone knows dihydrogen monoxide already. You can still trick them with this one, especially since it has the dreaded "acid" in it.

Is it acidic though? I thought it was neutral.

It is, but its composition can be described as if it were an acid

Not really, autodissociation yields both a hydronium cation (H₃O⁺ and a hydroxyl anion (OH^-, so no matter what you do it is either both or neither an acid and a base.

But, since the general formula for alcohols is C_nH_2n+1OH, with n=0, you could call it a nullanol.

[MonkeyHead]

Now, I am not a chemist, so I might be making this shit up (as all good Physicists do), but as water has an -OH group, couldnt we call it Hydronol?