Environmental dangers from dihydrogen oxide
I think I had the first page on the internet about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide (aka hydroxl acid, etc.) . . . but my older son checked recently and found that some other people had earlier versions in print. In the process he found this rather amazing Penn & Teller clip in which they have an assistant carry a petition around at an environmental rally.
Caution! There's is some off-color language that is NOT approved here on the PF.
If you're OK with that, take a look. It's pretty enlightening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzLs60ZaNW4
PoolDoc
Re: Environmental dangers from dihydrogen oxide
I saw that too and posted about that here in the classic thread Sodium Hydrogen Chloride OH NOES!! which soon moves to a discussion on dihydrogenmonoxide. It's a fun read.
(I noticed that the thread was started by Michael Smith who created PoolCalc and that his ID, mwsmith2, is "**Banned**" which seems strange.)
Re: Environmental dangers from dihydrogen oxide
I did that, after he re-registered under a different user ID. I asked him which he wanted to keep, and he didn't reply, so I banned the old one.
PoolDoc
Re: Environmental dangers from dihydrogen oxide
I'm thinking of taking the W.C. Fields view of DiHydrogen Oxide....:p