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[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago (9 children)

it makes me think, but just not that hard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Gets pretty deep the more you think about it. There are 0 hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water. Does that mean the sun is a negative star?

What I'm saying is, life has no meaning.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I tought a water molecule is 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen? Or does it not count as an atom anymore when it's part of a molecule?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Technically molecules consist of ions, not atoms. Though now that I look it up, they're used more or less interchangeably in English in this context.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Dosen't that depend on the type of bond between the atoms? Ions are created only if there is a ionic bond. Water has covalent bonds so it dosen't create ions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that all ions are still atoms. More importantly, not all water molecules ionize under regular conditions, the vast majority in fact remains in molecular form.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, ions are non-neutral atoms. However, the polar bond in H₂O technically means that the atoms in the molecule are ionized.

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