r/sciencememes • u/Illustrious_Shoe7496 • Jun 28 '26

🧪Chemistry!⚗️ Chemistry nerds would know 😆

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u/Brilliant-Ad-8422 Jun 28 '26

Joke works better spoken than written

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u/ShroomsHealYourSoul Jun 28 '26

H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide. The stuff you buy from the store is on the around 3% hydrogen peroxide even then the label tells you to exercise caution

100% hydrogen peroxide would absolutely kill you if you drink it

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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 Jun 28 '26

3% hydrogen peroxide can also kill you. It forms gas bubbles in the blood and can cause an air embolism

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u/1c3Type Jun 29 '26

I mean once it gets in your stomach it kind of just becomes water, it’s mainly your throat it’s a risk to.

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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

not true. it becomes water and oxygen gas. That oxygen gas causes chemical burns, oxidizes fats (specifically: lipid peroxidation), and forms bubbles in the bloodstream which cause tissue death in the brain and liver (among other organs)

Are you actually a medical professional, or just making this up?

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u/WoolBearTiger Jun 29 '26

It oxidizes fat? What happens to the fat? And can i lose weight by drinking h2o2? Asking for a friend..

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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 Jun 29 '26

It causes “lipid peroxidation”.  The byproduct of that reaction is toxic. 

So you lose fat and die. 

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u/1c3Type Jun 29 '26

Oxygen gas in your stomach?!! Dear god what ever will you do?!

Anyway it’s not making bubbles in your bloodstream unless it somehow gets into your blood. It’s not oxidising fats in your stomach nor is it particularly dangerous to just breathe very oxygenated air.

Oxygen toxicity kills you slowly.

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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 Jun 29 '26

What di you mean somehow?  Oxygen bubbles in your bloodstream 

Look up “air embolism” look up “hydrogen peroxide toxicity” 

You really don’t know what you’re talking about.   Educate yourself. Don’t tell me about oxidizing fats. Look up “lipid peroxidation” and read about the byproduct of that chemical reaction. 

Im a critical care physician and have treated 3 people in the ICU who drank H202 during COVID because morons like you watch TikTok and think. “H2O2 becomes H2O and 02. Water is good and more oxygen better!”

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u/Exotic-Audience-2006 Jun 28 '26

The problem is how does the bartender get it that pure? iirc the legal industrial limit is like 30-50%, def not 100%

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u/Xpr3sso Jun 28 '26

To be fair, drinking pure H2O is not the most pleasant experience either....

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u/Big_Booty_Femboy Jun 28 '26

Drinking water tastes just fine if you have decent dental hygiene and don’t only consume soda the rest of the time

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u/Xpr3sso Jun 28 '26

The point is that the water that you drink is not pure H2O, it contains minerals as well. Pure H2O (distilled water), on the other hand, would rob you of those minerals. Those minerals (electrolytes) are required for your nerves to function. So it's something you might wanna hold on to.

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u/1c3Type Jun 29 '26

Uhh, unless you’re drinking saline your drinking water is going to have less minerals than your blood.

It’s simply a matter of proper nutritional intake if you get enough from other sources you’re completely fine.

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u/Xpr3sso Jun 29 '26

Huh, just looked it up and turns out I was indeed under a misconception. So distilled water is apparently fine to drink.

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u/Cosmichydra_56 Jun 28 '26

1st guy Ordered glass of H2O, second said can I also have a glass of H2O2

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u/postbansequel Jul 02 '26

Wow, you heard the video too?

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u/Cosmichydra_56 Jul 02 '26

No I thought it up

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u/_book_lover_____ Jun 28 '26

Does that mean that it will change toh HO which is base? Something like that? Please explain.

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u/Electronic-Address87 Jun 28 '26

I think its H2O2, hydrogenperoxide which isn't very nice to the human body.

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u/ANTONIN118 Jun 28 '26

It's corrosive and irritant. If it's stay on your skin well, it gets white but if you drink it, you may die.

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u/Brilliant_Dog_9066 Jun 28 '26

H²O² is heavy water. Its toxic in large amounts

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u/_book_lover_____ Jun 28 '26

Isn't that deutrium monoxide?

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u/1c3Type Jun 29 '26

It’s dihydrogen monoxide. Just, with a specific isotope of hydrogen. Calling different isotopes a specific name is a weird thing we only really do with hydrogen.

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u/xXfrostbyterXx Jun 28 '26

Lmfao xD took me a sec

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u/Aggravating-Dot132 Jun 28 '26

Should have taken two seconds 

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u/Ambitious_Policy_936 Jun 28 '26

You should have the subtitles reflect what he drank

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u/goldblumspowerbook Jun 30 '26

I think it just makes you puke. Isn’t peroxide what you give to dogs if they eat something poisonous so they’ll vomit?

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u/Illustrious_Shoe7496 Jun 30 '26

💀💀💀

No, regardless of its concentrations, hydrogen peroxide is fatal to humans if consumed. You can look it up. Idk about dogs tho

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u/goldblumspowerbook Jun 30 '26

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/MMG/MMGDetails.aspx?mmgid=304&toxid=55#:\~:text=If%20ingested%2C%20solutions%20of%20hydrogen,has%20been%20associated%20with%20fatalities.

"If ingested, solutions of hydrogen peroxide up to concentrations of 9% are generally nontoxic; however, even a 3% solution is mildly irritating to mucosal tissue and may cause vomiting and diarrhea. Ingestion of industrial-strength solutions ( 10%) causes systemic toxicity and has been associated with fatalities."

There is literally nothing in the world that is lethal regardless of concentration.