What are negative effects of dihydrogen monoxide?

Answer 1

Dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) is one of the many names for water. The name has been used in many "technically true" but misleading statements in pranks and hoaxes. Examples of such statements about water include,

* Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities. * Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage. * Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects. * DHMO is a major component of acid rain. * Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns. * Contributes to soil erosion. * Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals. * Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits. * Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes. * Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions. * Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks. * Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S. * Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect. NOTE: Dihydrogen Monoxide is the scientific name for H2O, or water. See the wikipedia link below for more information.

Answer 2

* You can drown in it if there is too much. * If you spend too much time in it your skin will wrinkle. * Your hair may turn funny colors if there is too much clorine in it and you are exposed to it for long periods of time. * You can get hypothermia if it is too cold and you are exposed to it. * It can fall from the sky in both a liquid and solid form.

ITS WATER!!!!

Answer 3

two things, carbon monoxide is a small and unstable gas. It may enter the blood stream as the body may detect it as an oxygen molecule and thus absorbing it. This would lowered our body oxygen level and thus making us weaker and with high concerntration it may cause fatality.

second, since CO is a radical and unstable, it may enter the blood stream and once make contact with our cell can change the cell stability and thus creating a cancer cell

Answer 4

Because its molecularly heavier and there for displaces the air we breathe. Strangely enough you can safely injest it with in certain amounts just dont inhale it. If inhaled it wield be immediately apparent as you will start coughing.

Answer 5

The biggest dangers are drowning, choking and bacterial or viral contamination.

Dihydrogen Monoxide is one of the many names for water.
"Di" means two. Mono means one.
Two hydrogen, one oxygen. In other words, H2O, which is water.


The whole "dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous" hoax began as an April Fools joke in the 1980's, when a newspaper in Michigan, US, published a satirical article about dihydrogen monoxide and called for it to be regulated or banned. Unfortunately a lot of people thought it was real, and even continued to think so even after the newspaper said it was a joke and explained that it is just water. Water companies were hit with a barrage of telephone calls and letters, water pipes were sabotaged and so on. The April Fools "joke" caused a lot of panic, resulting in the need for a public announcement to discredit the myth. Of course some people then believed the government was covering it up.

There was also a science experiment in 1990 measuring the gullibility of people and how gullibility can spread. The experiment told people that dihydrogen monoxide is very dangerous and hazardous. Ultimately a lot of people believed it. This shows that people will believe anything they are told when they simply do not understand the science behind things (for example those who misunderstand evolution tend to lean towards the false view of creationism).


Dihydrogen monoxide is water. Two (di) hydrogen and one (mono) oxygen. H2O.
The biggest danger related to water to humans is drowning.


Further Reading:

• Dihydrogen Monoxide Hoax (Wikipedia)

Answer 6

Perhaps the best way to answer the question is to say that dihydrogen monoxide is one of the scientific names for ordinary water, and has been the subject of many pranks and hoaxes.

Answer 7

Dihydrogen Monoxide is a less-common scientific name for water.

Answer 8

dihydrogen monixide is water. It's only harmful if you drink too much or too little.