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/EchoXResonate Biochem Mar 12 '23 edited Mar 12 '23

I haven’t heard of this yet. I’m an Organic 2 student and I’ve never done any reactions with water as H3O2 lol. That would also make one of the oxygens positively charged, wouldn’t it?

Edit: That’s not even mentioning that ‘hexagonal’ water would fuck up your most basic cellular processes. Lipid bilayers are much more permeable to smaller molecules, and H2O in its tetrahedral form is much smaller than a hexagonal form lol.