Thursday, November 16, 2006

Water = What an Err

I am fond of chemistry, and this advertisement amuses me. They boast to have introduced "healthy" drinking water that has 300% more oxygen. Lets look at this more closely.

As I have known, water is a compound of two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen, i.e., H2O. What makes it drinkable is its purity levels.

Academically, 300% more oxygen should make it H2O3 (dihydrogen trioxide), which is a new compound altogether?!

I fail to understand. Manikchand, wakeup!!!

2 Comments:

At 8:02 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey buddy, very well said...looks like we need QA for advertisements too...new areas of employment ;)

 
At 1:49 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Bharad, interesting article, but to be frank you got it wrong. A water body's ability to support aquatic life is measured by the percentage of dissolved oxygen also called DO. DO is nothing but microscopic oxygen bubbles between water molecules. Why do you think fish die in a water tank without plants or oxygen supply? do you think fish takes in the oxygen atom from the water's H2O molecule?? think again.... so basically that ad is not wrong... water can have 300% DO in it....

 

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