• YeetPics@mander.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    So that’s great that ‘C’subscript-2’O’ means dicarbon monoxide, what are the biologic implications of drinking dicarbon monoxide (for those of us who are only 10 and a half and haven’t passed middle school yet)?

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      19 hours ago

      Apparently it’s not even really all that stable, so that whole container would rapidly decompose into probably carbon dioxide (CO2) and a bunch of pure carbon (think charcoal). At least that’s my hunch. There is a Wikipedia article on the stuff, but it’s pretty short, since it’s a pretty unusual chemical (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicarbon_monoxide).

      CO2 is of course extremely common. I’d love to see what a chemist can describe about a bottle of C2O though!

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        11 hours ago

        You can just say you don’t know if you don’t know lmao. Just funny you knowledge shamed someone while not knowing much about it yourself.

        Cheers 😉