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TahitiNut

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Thu Nov-02-06 12:24 PM
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12. Water is "only one molecule away" from being alcohol.

Edited on Thu Nov-02-06 12:27 PM by TahitiNut

It's one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a long, long time. I don't know what's happened to the education system in this country, but a molecule is what makes a compound a compound. To review Junior High School science, it is the smallest part of a compound that retains the characteristics of that compound.

Hell, it's as ridiculous as saying that Hydrogen is only one atom away from being Arsenic!!

It's true! So what? To think it trivial is to fail to comprehend the fundamentals of chemistry.

(Beware of that Dihydrogen Oxide ... it's deadly.)

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