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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 138 points 6 days ago

This terrible chemical directly caused the pressure increase that lead to Chernobyl.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

It was used in some Auschwitz showers instead of Zyklon B.

[-] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

Alright let's stop it here.

Btw there weren't any gas showers, they were put into huge slaughterhouses that were then filled with Zyklon B.

Idk where the myth of the shower comes from.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 21 points 6 days ago

Pretty much, yes but the slaughter houses were said to be shower areas and were sometimes even disguised in a manner (signs and fake shower heads).

I loathe to link to Reddit, but askhistorians /u/commiespaceinvader is s legit source as Holocaust historian:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/87hpr5/did_the_jews_know_that_the_showers_were_actually/

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They were told they were being given showers, and there were fake showerheads installed to continue the ruse. There were no pipes connected to the showers, the Nazis dropped canisters down chutes. The shower contrivance makes sense as a way to get them to strip “willingly” to get at any last valuables hidden in their clothes without having to bother with the bodies.

I think the popular imagination goes to that scene in Schindlers List - the very tense scene where the Schindlerjuden get shipped to Auschwitz and we don’t know if they’re going to be killed or not.

This is something we have to be careful when talking about - because all of those complicated discrepancies between memory and rumor are the muck Holocaust deniers like to throw everywhere. I found an online “uncensored Holocaust encyclopedia” on the first page of DuckDuckGo before I found this link.

[-] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago

Probably because that's what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.

[-] Eiren@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

spoilerGuards told them they would be taking showers to get them to go willingly and remove their clothes (easier than doing it after they're dead).

Or so I've heard, anyway.

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Bro, have you seen what happens to metals when they are exposed for a prolonged period of time to dihydrogen monoxide?? This is crazy.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Pure DHMO is actually pretty inert. It’s only once you add ions of sodium (a highly reactive metal) and chlorine (a highly toxic gas) that it starts damaging metal.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It also won’t conduct electricity without something dissolved in it.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

A mixture of HDO and h2o.

[-] loaf@sh.itjust.works 77 points 6 days ago

Where I live, we have periodic episodes of this stuff raining down from the clouds (possibly due to natural chemtrails), and we have to stay indoors until it passes.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

Where I live it does that so often that many people from the area are known to just go outside and walk in it with no extra protection or shielding. Crazy in my opinion.

[-] Sphks@jlai.lu 21 points 6 days ago

It's alarming how much this chemical is found in high concentration in the tissues of human bodies.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago

More prevalent than microplastics.

[-] TauZero@mander.xyz 9 points 6 days ago

I saw a study that DHMO is stored in the balls.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago

I guess you could use a centrifuge to get it out, blending beforehand?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago

Spoiler alert IT IS CHEMTRAILS!! Wake up sheeple.

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 80 points 6 days ago

Everyone who drinks it will die.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 59 points 6 days ago

Dihydrogen Monoxide can make your lungs shut down, killing you, and if gets into your blood it can cause your brain to swell, also killing you. Cancer, Coronavirus and Polio all thrive in environments rich in hydrogen monoxide. If a building's foundations are exposed to dihydrogen monoxide it can lead to structural collapse, and it causes painful blistering and instant cell death if flesh is exposed to it in its gaseous form. Despite this, the food industry - clamouring for profits above all other considerations - uses dihydrogen monoxide throughout the food production process, meaning this dangerous chemical is present in almost all processed foods.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 52 points 6 days ago

But I'd literally die without it.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 60 points 6 days ago

Addiction. Oh you poor soul...

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago

Very addictive. People abstaining from it for 24 hours will crave it like nothing else.

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

Don't try and justify your addiction to it!!!

[-] Denizen@lemmy.wtf 2 points 6 days ago

No, those are just the withdrawal symptoms due to your addiction.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

we also die from lack or too much "dioxide" or dioxygen

[-] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 6 days ago

Nice story bro.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[-] prex@aussie.zone 36 points 6 days ago
[-] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 39 points 6 days ago

Its also a waste product from many industrial processes and can remain stable in the environment for millions of years!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

It's considered by chemists to be a universal solvent. It's more acidic than bleach. And they want this stuff in our tap water!

[-] Wolfwood1@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

You know the Grand Canyon? It was created due to Dihydrogen Monoxide destroying rocks. Imagine what it would do to your body.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The jokeWe're talking about water.

As a normie subscriber to here I only know this off hand from a skit where college kids were collecting signatures to ban it. It was all factual statements just presented to be scary. They told them it was water after a bit and it was a good laugh.

Made me think Dihydrogen H~2~ monoxide O

I found it entertaining but it taught me not to jump to conclusions and educate myself before making a decision.

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 16 points 6 days ago

Chemtrails are full of this stuff.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 21 points 6 days ago

Spread awareness of the hazards of DHMO

[-] arken@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

I've personally seen a strong correlation between ingesting DMHO and autism. This is why I only give my children mashed potato mix now.

A lot of eye-opening info here

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 13 points 6 days ago

It's known to melt witches in seconds.

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 days ago

So, logically, if she weighs the same as a duck...

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 5 points 6 days ago

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

[-] bisby@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Hydroxyl acid? That sounds even more dangerous than hydrogen hydroxide, which is a notoriously dangerous base!

[-] aubertlone@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Many many moons ago.....

I was high schooler that didn't know how to say H2O.

Please subscribe for more water facts.

Cool beans

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

only 4500? I'm sure hydroxil acid exposure plays a role in millions of deaths every year

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago
[-] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Thats definitely convinced majority of americans who have seen it

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