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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If temperature was permanently -50 °C water would be a good building material.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

In the middle I was thinking "Woah, 4 MJ/m^3? That's nearly the same as water!"

You got me, xD

[–] [email protected] 270 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Water actually has shitty electrical conductivity.

[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But then the conductivity perishes as the salt is being spent. Just add more salt, then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Just use an electrolyte bath like a professional

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This is a salt and battery!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

What would a CPU look like with these wires? Would it fit within my town?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Introducing: Chlorone gas with a chance of hydrogen

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago

Username checks out

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pure water isn't a good electrical conductor.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Your face isnt a good electrical conductor

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago

Better than pure water for sure.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It actually is. Do you even nerd, bro?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

hydrogen hydroxide

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Everyone that ingested it has died. Concidence?

#dihydrogenMonoxideIsCancer #sayNoToH2O

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is false. the correct number is approximately 93%.
About 7% of everyone who ever lived is still alive.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I drank water once and now I'm dying.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still, you're doing remarkably well for only having drunk water once.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I drank it twice. But I also drank it once.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

dying of thirst?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

they all are chronically ill, they will die, just in some time

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dissolves everything? Hydrophobic and halogenated compounds would like to have a word.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

you are not adding enough water, add more

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you think water is incompressible, you’re not trying hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I've always hated "incompressible" when talking about fluids. It's just shorthand for: doesn't compress much under pressure.

In engineering unless you're dealing with insane pressures, when something is "incompressible", assuming it is is good enough.

But it's still misleading so I don't like it haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

username checks out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I can't see the thing matching your description.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The problem with water is it's heavy af. We need a light water.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Best I got is heavy water….

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Idk, have been statistically proven that everyone who come into touch with that material end up dying.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact, there are materials that dissolve better in fatty acids than water. For example, Menthol crystals extracted from Mint Oils will readily dissolve in other oils but is very picky about its water.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Polar vs. non-polar

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

universal solvent

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Along with the people pointing out conductivity.

Who says water is not compressible? Takes a lot of energy, but the big bang didn't happen in a sea of water.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My oceanography textbook said so. You'd think the ocean people knew about water. Must be more propaganda from big compress to sell more compression.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

most solids and liquids are practically incompressible (when comparing with gasses). there is a relationship between bulk compressibility, shear stress and youngs modulus for solids, which can be extended for liquids. It does not work for gasses

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Be water my friend.

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