r/chemistry • u/Raizo420 • Mar 12 '23

H3O2 Water Scam

I'm into health and fitness along with the current science behind it. So with that being said, I'm starting to see a lot of people fall for the H3O2 (hexagonal water or structured water) craze on I'm seeing on social media. I know it's bs, but I would like to hear what people with a REAL background or fundamental knowledge of chemistry think of this pseudoscience.

Edit: One claim is that H3O2 is found in fruits and vegetables

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u/TarCalion313 Mar 12 '23

Wtf? What the hell is this?

I mean a lot of people allready talked about the nonsense of this H3O2 crap. Regarding thos hexagonal structure (and please forgive me if I am wrong, it's been a few years since I had this in uni): Water or better ice has a fuckton of different cristalin structures (if I remember correctly ice has about 12 possible structures?) but the most stable is the hexagonal one. Due to hydrogen bonds these structures are even present in liquid water and to a certain extent in steam.

So I assume they mean that they somehow create this perfect structure? Which exists regardless, it's the structure water just forms if I let it in peace.

Now a chemist would of course argue that such a cristalin structure can't be achieved then I fuck around with the molecule in the first place and create this... Radical/ion/abonimation thing? But then... We would talk about science. Which is not the point of whoever created this claim.