Ban the wOkE government chemical Dihydrogen monoxide from our water supply! BAN DHMO, LIBERATE AMERICAN WATER FREEDOM! 🇺🇸🦅👊🇺🇲🔥🦅🇺🇸 USA! USA!
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Life is a game of burning but trying to do it slowly.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
100% of people exposed to oxygen die.
CptOblivius@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Our lives are a balance between needing oxygen and preventing oxidation damage. We have several enzymes that constantly reduce radicals and chemicals caused by oxidation. So yes oxygen is continuously damaging us. And will eventually win.
Joeyowlhouse@lemmy.wtf 7 hours ago
Wait until you read about Dihydrogen Monoxide. Everyone who has ever been exposed to it has died.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Wait till you hear about this greek curse called gravity.
xav@programming.dev 5 hours ago
There’s a whole website dedicated to raising awareness of its danger : www.dhmo.org
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I mean, oxygen is the most aggressive oxidator, to the point we named the process after it.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 40 minutes ago
F you.
spoiler
Brought to you by the highest oxidation gang.
KingCake_Baby@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
70-80+ years exposure to this stuff is lethal
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Efflixi@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
There are quite a few sci-fi stories and short stories built on a similar concept. One of my favorites is an alien ship lands on a random farm in the US and (leaving a lot of details out, read the book!) it comes to light that the aliens normally live at insanely hot temperatures like 900F (480C) and consider Earth and “Ice World” (that’s also the name of the book). Anyway, one of the catches in the book is that farmer figures out the alien wants to trade (again skipping a lot of details) but all he has on him that he can give up is a cigarette (the farmer doesn’t know it’s super hot inside the ship). He does the trade and we later find out that most of the galaxy is INSANELY vulnerable to being 100% completely utterly addicted to nicotine. When the alien took in the cigarette it instantly vaporized and sent the nicotine into the air and they breathed it and became instantly addicted worse than any opiod addiction IRL.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
That’s the exact theme of many stories on r/HFY
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Unrelated but the bottom navbar in that screenshot makes me long for the Alien Blue days of Reddit. I also just miss that iOS design (along with the OS X Mavericks design)
pewpew@feddit.it 17 hours ago
Imagine what it can do to software
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 31 minutes ago
It can document it!
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Those damn electrons!
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 1 day ago
On the topic, as oxidation is a pretty prevalent negative side effect of living, our body has multiple mechanisms to deal with it, no? So my question is: where do the "antioxidants" that we can eat come into the picture here? Are they like preventing oxidation from even occurring, or are they like the shields that our cells use to protect themselves from oxidative stress, or what have you?
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Oxidation is how red blood cells collect oxygen to pass to the rest of the body. In fact it is iron in hemoglobin that “rusts” to collect the oxygen.
Antioxidants have nothing to do with this.
rhombus@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
The process you’re thinking of is oxygenation, not oxidation. Oxygenation is the binding of oxygen to other molecules, oxidation is the loss of electrons. When the iron in hemoglobin oxidizes (from Fe2+ to Fe3+) it stops binding with oxygen, and if it oxidizes further (to Fe4+) it can start oxidizing other molecules in your body. Your body has enzymes to reduce the iron back to a reactive state, but antioxidants also play a role in reducing oxidized molecules.
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 1 day ago
ooh, then I must have gotten the terms wrong...
What I was thinking were the free radicals that are generated during basically most oxygen related reactions in the body, I thought that was called oxidation (at least, in terms of the body).
So, you know anything about how (or if) antioxidants are used against free radicals?
Greyghoster@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
Thanks, this is an unexpected image and a fun fact for the next party.
liquorisquicker@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Oxidation is the loss of electrons, whereas reduction is the gain of electrons. The mnemonic is OIL RIG: Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain.
Oxygen is highly electronegative (second only to fluorine), meaning that it will strongly pull electrons.
The reason that oxygen is so important for respiration is because of its high electronegativity. It is used as the final electron acceptor in a chain of chemical reactions that are used to convert high energy molecules that you’ve eaten into different high energy molecules that your body can use.
Think of the analogy of a staircase and a ball. The ball is an electron and the stairs are energy states of different molecules along the metabolic pathway. As the ball goes down the stairs, the electron loses energy (which is usually converted to ATP or NADH). At the bottom of the stairs is oxygen, once the electron gets there, it doesn’t have anymore potential energy to lose, unless maybe you have some fluorine around.
An oxygen missing an electron (an oxygen radical) is highly reactive. It’ll just steal an electron from whatever molecule is nearby. That may be DNA or any other molecule that you’d rather keep intact. Antioxidants are helpful as electron donors, neutralizing radicals before they do damage.
This is my understanding, at least. It’s been a while since I took chemistry.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
antioxidants are our internal sacrificial anodes?
olafurp@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Cell mechanisms cause oxidative stress in the body which can lead to inflammation and faster aging. Antioxidants provide the body with an easy way to neutralise the bi-products.
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I actually thought about this a few years ago, is it possible that we age because of oxidation to some degree? Is there a way to prevent that? I thought about it, how blood can rust and just had the connecting thought but I’m not smart enough to know if there’s any actual correlation.
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 1 day ago
Pretty sure oxidation plays a major role in aging, but can't tell you the exact mechanism, I have no idea about it.
But about the blood rust idea, I don't think that can work, cause we don't have just iron particles that can directly interact with oxygen just floating around in our blood, we have a complex (I.e. hemoglobin) that contains significant amounts of iron, which somehow makes it really good for binding to and carrying oxygen.
Deviating a bit, carbon monoxide poisoning is really akin to suffcation iirc, cause it binds and occupies the hemoglobin, effectively reducing the amount of oxygen that can be carried by your blood.
However, do fact check me, I might be wrong about something...
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I’m no expert but I’m fairly sure that is basically true in a way. As per zr0’s top-level comment. Forms of life that can make do with less cellular respiration, for example by using external sources to regulate temperature (cold- blooded), don’t need to invite as much oxygen into their cells, and so they get less weird damage over time. Mammals in general have not adopted this strategy.
Bosht@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’ve currently been reducing my oxygen intake. My wife keeps telling me it’s impossible and my doc says I’ll supposedly die, but they’re just hating on my progress.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
This is a valid athletic technique. Usually achieved by training at altitude.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Doesn’t it only work if you then return to a lower altitude? I wonder how long the benefits last for.
Now that I think about it, I don’t actually know how this even works. Well I know what I’m going to go read about next.
Zenith@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
I got my oxygen intake down to single digits! My family wasn’t supportive however and got me a new pair of lungs, haters
popjam@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Big O lackeys are everywhere. They want to keep you alive so they can sell you more O.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You think that’s bad, wait until you hear about dihydrogen monoxide!
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Did you know that dihydrogen monoxide kills more people than any other liquid? And yet, the government does nothing to ban it. This deadly liquid could be anywhere, even in your home!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
More information about this dangerous chemical: dhmo.org/facts.html
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 14 hours ago
Took me some time
Maeve@midwest.social 19 hours ago
Antioxidants exist.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t forget, water is only one atom in it’s molecular composition away from rocket fuel
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Or an extremely deadly poison. Or an explosive, flammable gas.
collimated_thought@programming.dev 22 hours ago
Statistically speaking, for humans, breathing oxygen does eventually have a 100% fatality rate.
enkille@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if you haven’t heard of air, it’s an invisible blend of gases so addictive, we suffer fatal withdrawal symptoms within minutes of our supply being cut off
cRazi_man@europe.pub 21 hours ago
Did you see what oxygen did to the Hindenburg? I’m not going to let that happen to me. Say no to big oxygen!
Dicska@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Have you ever seen asbestos catch fire? Me neither. So it’s your choice what you’d prefer breathing in.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Delicious fluorine for me please
voodooattack@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Look at what it did for the Linux kernel too.
Tap for spoiler
Ssshhh. It made it better
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
andros_rex@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
To sum up - because I taught this to a kid yesterday - for a period, life photosynthesized and oxygen was toxic to most living things. There were large growths of photosynthetic Cyanobacteria that pumped the air full of oxygen. Living things at the time (like, bacteria and microbes, nowhere near vertebrates) couldn’t handle all the O2 and died.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
You can combat dangerous oxygen with black smoke from burning oil.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It makes my blood run blue just thinking about it
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Have you heard about the dangers of dihydrogenoxide?
Godric@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
That’s why I chainsmoke constantly, I have to protect my lungs from oxidation.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
you train your legs and arms and back, but when i train my lungs im told smoking isnt allowed in the restaurant 🙄
camelbeard@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah restaurants can de pretty shitty, I have been told the same when I do my prostate cancer prevention exercises.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This is why I feed blueberries to my chains
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Great now I’m gonna stop breathing.
chaotic_altruist@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Lol obviously. Thanks!
20cello@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anyone else stopped breathing here?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Ever breathe oxygen, son?
Good, don’t start. Me, I’m hooked!-Muddy Mudskipper
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Oxygen will burn you, that’s why we dilute it with nitrogen