• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      13 days ago

      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)

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        13 days ago

        So that’s great that ‘C’subscript-2’O’ 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)?

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      They have replaced the H in the chemical formula for water (H2O) with a C to represent “coconut”. However, C already stands for a chemical element, carbon. That implies this product is a compound 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.