Comment on Drink it, I dare ya
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
ELI5 please.
They wanted to imply the C is for coconut and this is coconut water but really all they did to people that passed middle school (which you’ll get to soon enough) is say “this is dicarbon monoxide.”
I don’t know what would happen if you were to drink C2O but it probably wouldn’t be good, making this a drink marketed to idiots by idiots (marketing majors)
So that’s great that Csubscript2O 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)?
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 (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!
Bad!
You can just say you don’t know if you don’t know lmao.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
They have replaced the H in the chemical formula for water (H2O) to represent “coconut”. However, C already stands for a chemical element, carbon. That implies this product is a molecule made of two carbon atoms and one oxygen. If such a thing exists, it would be incredibly unstable and react with anything it touches; you certainly would not want to drink it.