I agree that hydroxile hydride is the best, but the dihydro ether one is wrong. Ethers are defined by carbon bound to oxygen. No carbon bound to oxygen? No ether!
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Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 months ago
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Hydroxyl hydride feels wrong given that hydride is H-. So what’s a good name for HO+…? Oxenium hydride? Hydrenium hydride? (comparing carbonium (CR4H+) vs carbenium (CR3+))
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 months ago
Good point, maybe hydroxonium for OH+? I just know I never want to be in the same lab as a real OH+ species. Sounds like one of those “things I don’t want to work with”
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Here’s some other dank names from the Wikipedia info card thing:
- Oxidane
- Hydrogen oxide
- Hydrogen hydroxide (H2O or HOH)
- Hydroxylic acid
- Dihydrogen monoxide
- Dihydrogen oxide
- Hydric acid
- Hydrohydroxic acid
- Hydroxic acid
- Hydroxoic acid
- Hydrol
- μ-Oxidodihydrogen
- κ1-Hydroxylhydrogen(0)
- Aqua
- Neutral liquid
- Oxygen dihydride
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Hydrol sounds like bottled water you’d buy at the pharmacy
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Star rust is also a cool name
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Oxidane.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doesn’t an acid have to be an acid, though?
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 months ago
amphotericity is some weird shit, so yes. Water also an acid.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In that situation, is it called hydroxic acid, as OP says?
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It can behave like an acid by donating a proton when mixed with a stronger base.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
When you mix it with water, it’ll form a hydronium ion, what else do you need?
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I think oxenium hydride would be more appropriate than hydroxyl taking into account the polarity of the two fragments (HO+ and H-), though AFAIK there is no standardized name for HO+.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Clearly I didn’t pay attention in chemistry
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where?
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Beware of Dihydrogen Monoxide. It’s very dangerous!!!