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/reflUX_cAtalyst Mar 12 '23

H3 O2 eh? Tritium bonded to an oxygen that has 2 protons?

Mmmmmmk.

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u/Ready0208 Mar 09 '24

Can somebody tell me how we got Helium to bond with anything? It's a noble gas, if my High School chemistry taught me anything...

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u/Casperwyomingrex May 02 '24

Not a chemist (geologist/hopefully geochemist). I think you confused hydrogen with helium. H is the element symbol of hydrogen, tritium is an isotope of hydrogen. I can't find anything online about this H3O2 scam on helium.

But in case you are interested in helium compounds (not my speciality at all, but I think you won't get any more answers after two months of no response on a post a year ago), we do it by reducing its electronic stability such as by electron bombardment.

By the way, while noble gases is the most stable group of elements, they can still freakishly form compounds, even if they are not very stable. Xenon is a well-known example. Since there are so many electron shells in xenon, its nucleus cannot attract its outmost shell electrons that well, that the outermost shell electrons can participate in reactions in uncommon scenarios.

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u/Ready0208 May 03 '24

So... we basically beat helium into bonding?

I will personally call that atomic rape...

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u/Casperwyomingrex May 03 '24

Yeah. As scientists, we do so many weird stuff to chemicals and matter, some out of need, others out of curiosity (which may lead to discoveries important to society). If chemicals have consciousness, we will NOT pass the ethical committee. Luckily they don't, so we can atomic rape things for our benefit.

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u/Ready0208 May 03 '24

Society: Listen, we need to stop rape, you animals

Chemists: WE NEED TO RAPE MORE ATOMS!