PLEASE help ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
#1
04-21-2008, 10:01 PM
Hybrid and Ethanol Expert
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: All over the Central U.S.
Posts: 3,616
PLEASE help ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Please join the petetion to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
This is a very harmful fuel additive.
It can be found in many lakes and streams these days.
Please do not respond to this thread until you have the facts.
Please watch this informative video before responding.
Please watch the video. I feel you will regret having a knee jerk response without watching it first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw
This is a very harmful fuel additive.
It can be found in many lakes and streams these days.
Please do not respond to this thread until you have the facts.
Please watch this informative video before responding.
Please watch the video. I feel you will regret having a knee jerk response without watching it first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw
#2
04-22-2008, 05:49 AM
Pragmatist
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: South Florida
Posts: 490
Re: PLEASE help ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Dihydrogen Monoxide is commonly known as Water.
It should be found in large concentrations in lakes and streams.
It should not normally be found in gasoline. It used to be that even a little bit of water in the fuel would cause problems for internal combustion engines. They used to sell "gas dryer", which was just alcohol. (Water dissolves in alcohol, which can then run through the engine without causing problems.) But the new gasolines have some percent of alcohol in them already, so a percent or two of water will dissolve in the fuel mix and not cause problems.
It should be found in large concentrations in lakes and streams.
It should not normally be found in gasoline. It used to be that even a little bit of water in the fuel would cause problems for internal combustion engines. They used to sell "gas dryer", which was just alcohol. (Water dissolves in alcohol, which can then run through the engine without causing problems.) But the new gasolines have some percent of alcohol in them already, so a percent or two of water will dissolve in the fuel mix and not cause problems.
Re: PLEASE help ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
#6
04-22-2008, 10:32 PM
Ridiculously Active Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Long Beach, Calif
Posts: 530
Re: PLEASE help ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Dihydrogen Monoxide is commonly known as Water.
It should be found in large concentrations in lakes and streams.
It should not normally be found in gasoline. It used to be that even a little bit of water in the fuel would cause problems for internal combustion engines. They used to sell "gas dryer", which was just alcohol. (Water dissolves in alcohol, which can then run through the engine without causing problems.) But the new gasolines have some percent of alcohol in them already, so a percent or two of water will dissolve in the fuel mix and not cause problems.
It should be found in large concentrations in lakes and streams.
It should not normally be found in gasoline. It used to be that even a little bit of water in the fuel would cause problems for internal combustion engines. They used to sell "gas dryer", which was just alcohol. (Water dissolves in alcohol, which can then run through the engine without causing problems.) But the new gasolines have some percent of alcohol in them already, so a percent or two of water will dissolve in the fuel mix and not cause problems.
#7
04-22-2008, 10:53 PM
Hybrid and Ethanol Expert
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: All over the Central U.S.
Posts: 3,616
Re: PLEASE help ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Not a "Hoax" since it is quite real.
You missed the point though I'm afraid.
Indications are, you didn't watch the video.
You missed the point though I'm afraid.
Indications are, you didn't watch the video.
#8
04-22-2008, 11:46 PM
Ridiculously Active Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Long Beach, Calif
Posts: 530
Re: PLEASE help ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
But, I'm not one to hold a grudge:
The dihydrogen monoxide hoax involves listing negative effects of water under an unfamiliar scientific name, then asking individuals to help control the seemingly dangerous substance (caused by most people knowing the word "monoxide" as part of the name of the poisonous gas "carbon monoxide"). The hoax is designed to illustrate how the lack of scientific knowledge and an exaggerated analysis can lead to misplaced fears. Dihydrogen monoxide, shortened to DHMO, is a scientific name for water that, while technically correct, is almost never employed.
The hoax was apparently created by Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman, housemates while attending UC Santa Cruz in 1989, revised by Craig Jackson in 1994, and brought to widespread public attention in 1997 when Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student, gathered petitions to ban "DHMO" as the basis of his science project, titled "How Gullible Are We?"[1]
#9
04-22-2008, 11:50 PM
Ridiculously Active Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Long Beach, Calif
Posts: 530
