Is H~2~O~4~U chemically possibly? I feel like you could make a chain out of the oxygens and put hydrogen at both ends but I don't hear anything more that O~3~
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Not as written. But uranyl peroxide is a thing.
There’s UO~4~·4(H~2~O) studtite and UO~4~·2(H~2~O) metastudtite
Johnny was a corporate stooge,
but Johnny's words untrue;
what Johnny sold as H2O
was H2O4U.
Something something H2SO4
Little Johnny took a drink but now will drink no more
For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
Fun fact: unlike some other site that shall not be named, Lemmy's markdown can do subscripts!
Little Johnny took a drink
but now will drink no more
For what he thought was H~2~O
was H~2~SO~4~
> Little Johnny took a drink
> but now will drink no more
> For what he thought was H~2~O
> was H~2~SO~4~
Really? It's the squiggly to make subscript? I thought that was used for strike through?
Strikethrough is ~~double-tilde~~ double-squiggly.
Two squiggles for ~~strikethrough~~; one squiggle for ~subscript~; and no squiggle for you!
Neat, I've never seen that version before. The one I know is:
Johnny was a chemist's son
but Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H2O
was H2SO4.
Strong acids are weak, you'd notice the boiling acid flavor and spit it out with the rest of your mouth lining right away.
Awww, the redditor by the name TheZyde understood the joke!
Is H2O4U actually possible to synthesize? Is it stable?
Would it be a liquid at any reasonable temperatures?
Tetraoxidane (H2O4) is very unstable by itself, and I doubt adding a uranium into the mix would stabilize it
No way to know until you try
Hm... I'm guessing that adding Uranium to that would make it quickly oxidize, and instead of H2O4U, you'd get mostly U3O8 (the most stable Uranium oxide) and a bunch of H2O and Hydrogen gas.
And a lot of heat. If I had to guess, I'd bet on that being a... "rather energetic" exothermic reaction.
Surely if you shook the bottle well, the ingredients would recombine like a vinaigrette, and the intended flavor could be appreciated.
Refreshing!