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Dihydrogen Monoxide
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EcoActiv
2006-12-22 12:07:39 UTC
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This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest.

ACT NOW!!

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html

More info here:-

http://www.dhmo.org/
Martin Underwood
2006-12-22 12:22:27 UTC
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EcoActiv wrote in message
Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your
opportunity to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
Yeah, that dihydrogen monoxide gets EVERYWHERE! People are forced to wash
with it; it's in every cup of tea or coffee; there are even clouds of it in
the air at the moment which are affecting visibility and disrupting air
travel. Ban it NOW! ;-)
James Farrar
2006-12-22 13:25:55 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
It's the single biggest most lethal chemical in the world - Ban it!!!!
:)
John Rowland
2006-12-22 14:40:15 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your
opportunity to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
It's responsible for rising sea levels too!
www.waspies.net
2006-12-22 15:06:29 UTC
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Post by John Rowland
Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your
opportunity to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
It's responsible for rising sea levels too!
I'm going out for a pint of it tonight.....YUM
Peter Hill
2006-12-23 10:03:59 UTC
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:06:29 GMT, "www.waspies.net"
Post by www.waspies.net
Post by John Rowland
Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your
opportunity to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
It's responsible for rising sea levels too!
I'm going out for a pint of it tonight.....YUM
If you are in Scotland you may get a pint of "heavy" Dihydrogen
Monoxide.
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Adrian
2006-12-23 12:04:31 UTC
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Post by Peter Hill
If you are in Scotland you may get a pint of "heavy" Dihydrogen
Monoxide.
Only if you happen to be at Dounreay or one of the others, I'd hope...
Peter Hill
2007-01-02 11:27:39 UTC
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Post by Adrian
Post by Peter Hill
If you are in Scotland you may get a pint of "heavy" Dihydrogen
Monoxide.
Only if you happen to be at Dounreay or one of the others, I'd hope...
Heavy water taken from a reactor would be a health hazard. It's not
radioactive or a major hazard before it's been used in a reactor and
one or more of the Deuterium atoms has been converted to Tritium.
Tritium is radioactive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

During a normal life span you will drink quite a few pints of heavy
water, as it's naturally present in all water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium
100% substitution of normal water intake by heavy water over many days
would be a hazard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water

Even normal water is toxic in excess or in the wrong conditions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

For those that don't know, a pint of "heavy" is a pint of beer which
in some parts of Scotland is known by the old duty payable on a barrel
as 80 shilling (80/-). While a lower alcohol content brew was taxed
at 70/- a barrel. Other brews with duty at 54/- (a substitute for
water back in the days before clean piped drinking water), 60/- (piss)
and 90/- per barrel also exist.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A841060
Anyone not drinking a pint of "heavy" in Scotland is expected to be
drinking half 'n half, half pint of heavy with a tot of whisky.
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Nick Austin
2006-12-23 14:47:45 UTC
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:03:59 +0000, Peter Hill
Post by Peter Hill
If you are in Scotland you may get a pint of "heavy" Dihydrogen
Monoxide.
Heavy Water would be dihydrogen dioxide (2H2O), but it's
more commonly called deuterium oxide (D2O).

Nick.
Martin Underwood
2006-12-23 15:56:08 UTC
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Nick Austin wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:03:59 +0000, Peter Hill
Post by Peter Hill
If you are in Scotland you may get a pint of "heavy" Dihydrogen
Monoxide.
Heavy Water would be dihydrogen dioxide (2H2O), but it's
more commonly called deuterium oxide (D2O).
Er... isn't heavy water *chemically* the same as water, in that it has two
hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom, but the hydrogen atom has neutron in
addition to a proton in its nucleus.
James Farrar
2006-12-23 20:29:51 UTC
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Post by Martin Underwood
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:03:59 +0000, Peter Hill
Post by Peter Hill
If you are in Scotland you may get a pint of "heavy" Dihydrogen
Monoxide.
Heavy Water would be dihydrogen dioxide (2H2O), but it's
more commonly called deuterium oxide (D2O).
Er... isn't heavy water *chemically* the same as water, in that it has two
hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom, but the hydrogen atom has neutron in
addition to a proton in its nucleus.
Indeed. That hydrogen atom is deuterium (an atom with two neutrons and
one proton, incidentally, is tritium). Thus heavy DHMO would be
"dideuterium monoxide". "Dihydrogen dioxide" would be H2O2 (subscript
2s).
Han Monsees
2006-12-23 20:31:59 UTC
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J
Post by James Farrar
Indeed. That hydrogen atom is deuterium (an atom with two neutrons and
one proton, incidentally, is tritium). Thus heavy DHMO would be
"dideuterium monoxide". "Dihydrogen dioxide" would be H2O2 (subscript
2s).
...which is hydrogenperoxide, the stuff that makes hair blond
Fleetie
2006-12-23 20:54:10 UTC
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Post by Han Monsees
...which is hydrogenperoxide, the stuff that makes hair blond
...and in a much more concentrated form, propelled V2s and other
early rockets on their way. Nice stuff!
PRAR
2006-12-23 21:57:07 UTC
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Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:54:10 -0000, "Fleetie"
Post by Fleetie
Post by Han Monsees
...which is hydrogenperoxide, the stuff that makes hair blond
...and in a much more concentrated form, propelled V2s and other
early rockets on their way. Nice stuff!
The other component IIRC was hydrazine, even less pleasant
<http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/HY/hydrazine.html> cf
<http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/HY/hydrogen_peroxide_50pc.html>



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Peter Hill
2007-01-02 00:14:45 UTC
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DERWENT Re: Dihydrogen Monoxide
Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:54:10 -0000, "Fleetie"
Post by Fleetie
Post by Han Monsees
...which is hydrogenperoxide, the stuff that makes hair blond
...and in a much more concentrated form, propelled V2s and other
early rockets on their way. Nice stuff!
The other component IIRC was hydrazine, even less pleasant
<http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/HY/hydrazine.html> cf
<http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/HY/hydrogen_peroxide_50pc.html>
PRAR
My rocket fuel of choice is UK LPG and laughing gas.
Or for the USA readers HD5 and NOS.

Far safer and easy to obtain.
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ian henden
2006-12-23 23:12:13 UTC
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Post by John Rowland
Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your
opportunity to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
It's responsible for rising sea levels too!
And causes countless deaths.....
JNugent
2006-12-22 16:05:41 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest
...against people "thinking" that things they don't
like (or imagine themselves not to benefit from) should
be banned?
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