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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

ELI5 please.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 25 points 9 months 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)

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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)?

[-] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Apparently it's not even really all that stable, so that whole container would rapidly decompose into probably carbon dioxide (CO2) and a bunch of pure carbon (think charcoal). At least that's my hunch. There is a Wikipedia article on the stuff, but it's pretty short, since it's a pretty unusual chemical (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicarbon_monoxide ).

CO2 is of course extremely common. I'd love to see what a chemist can describe about a bottle of C2O though!