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It’s a lovely gift for your DHMO-fearing friends!

Wasn't muonium a thing?

i do not mean the youtube channel. i mean the website what-if.xkcd.com

a what if about What If, delicious

Shouldn't there be a medium heavy water too? One hydrogen atom of light hydrogen, one of heavy hydrogen.

isnt this basically a helvetica scenario?

No. Doing so just makes a natural mix of HOD, D2O and H2O. The hydrogen-oxygen bonds aren't quite as static as chemistry class makes them sound.

Or sex in a canoe.

Gluten Free Water. This is a thing I actually found in a store once.

#GreatAltText Thanks

Instant Water: just add

Is that what makes Bud Light, light?

OH- I see

I was looking for the Water Zero. Disappoint.

HDO molecules do exist, the pure substance does not. Some of it always disproportionates into H2O and D2O. It's not like the substance would have any uses though, it's just an intermediate in the isolation of D2O.

Really really really heavy water: muonic D2[18 O]

Deja vu, I just been in this place before--

I remember light water from my Navy days and firefighting. Nasty stuff. www.bibbvoice.com/2023/09/18/v...

Scientifically speaking He20 (2 Helium 1 oxygen) should be possible but probably not stable in any fashion. Imagine it though: lighter than air liquid that can float.

spicy oxygen

I mean, you could do “light water” (briefly) by swapping one H atom for positronium…

Light water... Much better than free electron 🤔

👀 that doesn’t seem very safe sir

I knew Sparkling Water was a lie

Also known as hydroxide. But light water is much better.

i think we call this hydroxide

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝒽𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒲𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇

Going to carry around a bag of deuterium atoms to sprinkle into nearby water sources.

you fool! that's not light water, that's just *slightly* heavy oxygen!

We even have documentation of its properties!

Oh no.

So is positronium light-anti-light water?

Ok and how does one obtain heavy water.

Light water, I assume, is a constituent of blood plasma.

Oxygen bound positronium would result in the state that is depicted on the right I reckon; not too stable to say the least but certainly quite a bit lighter than ordinary water. 👨‍🔬

You left out the Oxygen.

Positronium is an electron orbiting a positron (antimatter version of an electron). Muonium is the same thing, but with an antimatter muon (somewhat similar to an electron, but heavier). Both are extremely unstable.

Light water might not be entirely nuclear stable.

2.2 µs: amb is a quick drinker

"I want the highest pH water you have available." "No, that's too high."

IO

Hydrogen-muonium oxide, then ?

Which one is dasani again

(listing stable isotopes only)

Tritium is indeed a very interesting isotope of hydrogen & tritiated water is a powerful tool for studying the ocean and global water cycle essd.copernicus.org/articles/11/...

In a scintillating glass, tritiated water could technically also be called light water ;)

Water Classic.

What's Sparkling Water look like?

Heavy Water is passé. Give me the Thick Water.

Your clever comment does not go unnoticed <3

Yes, positronium compounds have been made. Positronium has a half-life of 0.12 nanoseconds while molecule formation happens on the order of attoseconds once the component atoms are in direct proximity. It's very, very fast.

genuinely thought this was a @xyeh2o.bsky.social post for a moment LMAO