OK SO RECENTLY A FEW SECOUNDS AGO I CAME ACROSS A VIDEO DENOTING WATWR HAVING 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen
WHEN TF DID THIS HAPPEN?? Pls respond as soon as possible im freaking tf out
it was 1 hydrogen 2 oxygen WTF
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well…
it seems it is still H2O according to wikipedia.
Im speaking about its composition not wether it’s still water
I’m saying I’m told it never had 2 oxygen
But I remember in school learning of it
Then I was told that the way we read chemistry equations is also different
they said it’s 2 hydrogen not 2 oxygen
That’s so weird , super weird man
like a few days ago I was watching a video where this was case
then I went back to a video of 14 years ago claiming it’s 2 hydrogen not 2 oxygen
Atomic electron orbits are arranged as such:
The inner and smallest can hold up to two electrons.
Each orbit furher out has space for up to eight electrons.
Atoms want their orbits filled to the max.
Think of it as a classic tinker toy set that has wooden sticks you connect together through two kinds of joints, a cylinder with a hole on either end, or a circular hub with 8 holes giving N NE E SE S SW W NW
The geometry isn’t flat like that, but rules are similar.
Atoms fiill their orbits by sharing electrons with other atoms.
Hydrogen is the simplest atom, with one electron in the smallest orbit. It wants another one.
Oxygen has eight electrons, two in the smallest orbit and six in the outer one. Its got two empty holes and needs to borrow two electrons from somewhere. It can do this with any atoms. But, the strongest binding attraction comes from the smallest atoms with the fewest orbits.
So, when hydrogen and oxygen bump into each other while missing electrons, hydrogen sort of merges with oxygen to share one of its electrons, and oxygen sort of merges with hydrogen to share its one electron. This is called a co-valent bond. Some people think a shared electron loops in a figure eight bewtween the two atoms, but the paired atom itself looks like an electron to the other if you consider most of the time atoms exist as a condensate cloud.
Because hydrogen only has one proton and now two electrons, it has a net negative charge. So, the only way hydrogen and oxygen can bind is two hydrogens to one oxygen and not the other way around. With two oxygens and one hydrogen you still have one hole left over.
The resulting H2O molecule has two negative charges on one side, which is what gives water its weird properties and makes it stable and a solvent at the same time
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I know what water is I’m not asking about its atomic structure I’m asking if anyone else remembers this as the case 
I know what water is homie trust
Its impossible to have been any other way ever. You are talking about possible bonding structures in atoms, not the composition of molecules. Covalence bonding doesn’t support O2H just because of geometry. You would need completely different dimensional fields - a different kind of universe that doesn’t support physics as we know it. It likely won’t support life either as this H2O structure and rules are fundumental to all molecular biology in our entire universe. The next level up is sulpher, but it takes too much energy to sustain and its is weaker at preserving and propagating information
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That’s not how it’s written
It’s writing
H 2O the two is supposed to be smaller
why do you guys keep doing that
and no I swear I’m describing water like bro I’m 2 something years old not too long ago I was in high school learning this shit
I meant to say 20 my fault just assume I said 20
the 2 means squared…
hydrogen squared with one oxygen.
you may be thinking of CO2 which is Carbon Dioxide.
where CO is carbon Monoxide.
And it’s not true science isn’t always permanent people don’t really think of this but science can change over time
To be exact a universes physical properties aren’t always fixed and
No offence but genuinely I’m not saying I didn’t cross through time or something
I genuinely remember in school being taught to read and interpret it that way I’m not trying to make up some story I swear I remember
1 hydrogen 2 oxygen
Then I was told it’s not water
Like tf you mean since when
no did I type carbon dioxide
Look closely at how the two are…
H20
CO2
notice where the 2 is?
So either I’m tripping out about a quarter of my life’s worth education or they updated old shit
Cause last I checked it was 2 oxygen
It was hydrogen dioxide not monoxide
And yeah I was told various times but again like I can’t be making this shit up
I even spoke to gpt ( which again rare for me to do ) and I said did they update scientific notations or something and asked it
It brought up that I’m not describing water
I’m describing a free radical that barely exists under normal conditions
And I said well that can’t be cause I’m just describing water
Then it kept pointing out oh the number on the right hand is for the letter to the left
And I said that can’t be cause we are too lazy to change anything and I’m 110% sure that it’s supposed to be on the left hand not the right
the 2 isn’t supposed to be for hydrogen it’s for oxygen
like on one hand to me it makes sense why you do it
But on the other I’m not gonna negate what I was taught by my school
Again I didn’t type it that way so obviously I’m not stating carbon dioxide
And the 2 does not mean squared other wise it would be in the top corner and yes I’m aware it can be used that way but that only applies to mathematics
As to do this with a chemical formula is often avoided to lower the possibility of mistakes happening during
Measurements
So again
Why do you keep placing the number there???
It’s H 2 O
No H02 your describing a very different
like that makes no sense
Your describing something that doesn’t exist what water has 2 hydrogen and 2 oxygen now ?
HO2 there’s two molecules of hydrogen and oxygen bonded together
or unless you want to denote it it’s set up at the top corner
it wouldn’t be any different
Honestly it was up to the people working the lab