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If you drink it, you will make that face :C=C=O
For that record, coconut water is disgusting
Coconut water is awesome, when it comes straight from the coconut. The crap they sell in cartons is depressing and disgusting.
That sounds as bad an idea as the other drink, H2O4U
And don’t even think about drinking their flavored H2SO4.
Bro I tried some and I was looking absolutely radiant afterwards.
I love hot beverages!
It is soluble in water…
Co² water would be cool though
Isn’t that just LaCroix?
2 Coconut and one Orgasm.
Man I thought I’d never have to remember the coconut story from reddit.
Hm, I needed a new stage name, thx
I love me some Suspicious White Fluid to go with my Mystery Meat
ELI5 please.
They have replaced the H in the chemical formula for water (H2O) with a C to represent “coconut”. However, C already stands for a chemical element, carbon. That implies this product is a compound made of two carbon atoms and one oxygen. If such a thing exists, it would be incredibly unstable and react with anything it touches; you certainly would not want to drink it.
They wanted to imply the C is for coconut and this is coconut water but really all they did to people that passed middle school (which you’ll get to soon enough) is say “this is dicarbon monoxide.”
I don’t know what would happen if you were to drink C2O but it probably wouldn’t be good, making this a drink marketed to idiots by idiots (marketing majors)
So that’s great that ‘C’subscript-2’O’ means dicarbon monoxide, what are the biologic implications of drinking dicarbon monoxide (for those of us who are only 10 and a half and haven’t passed middle school yet)?
Apparently it’s not even really all that stable, so that whole container would rapidly decompose into probably carbon dioxide (CO2) and a bunch of pure carbon (think charcoal). At least that’s my hunch. There is a Wikipedia article on the stuff, but it’s pretty short, since it’s a pretty unusual chemical (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicarbon_monoxide ).
CO2 is of course extremely common. I’d love to see what a chemist can describe about a bottle of C2O though!
it’s a pretty unusual chemical
Yeah, I can’t even find an SDS for it.
Bad! Don’t!
You can just say you don’t know if you don’t know lmao. Just funny you knowledge shamed someone while not knowing much about it yourself.
Cheers 😉
is that even stable? been too long since organic chemistry class
Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but “stable” is certainly not the first word I’d use to describe it.
You could also do something like a cross between https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_oxide and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylene (the fuel responsible for the hottest welding flames) but remove the hydrogens and then have the carbons do a triple bond to make https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Epoxy-acetylene
Considering ethylene oxide is already so unstable as fuck though due to its strained structure that it’s used as the main component in thermobaric weapons and this would be even more strained, I don’t know if that would be an improvement. This ring would also likely cause mega cancer when it’s not exploding, pretty much all the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoxide rings cause cancer and this one is particularly unstable.
From the third sentence in the wiki page:
It is, however, so extremely reactive that it is not encountered in everyday life.
So yeah, not at all stable.
I was about to say, you got way too many things that absolutely will bond with that with no hesitation. Thats a very unstable molecule.
I would thing the plastic lining in that container would probably be high on the bonding list, but I haven’t taken a chemistry class in 24 years.
Well, it seems Wikipedia was wrong at least about the second half of that sentence
To be fair, most people won’t buy this specific drink.
When the Wikipedia page is that sparse, it’s safe to assume it’s probably too reactive to be of much use.
Alternatively for a full octet on every atom, oxiryne, which does not exist and does not have a wiki page. It’s basically acetylene with its arms chopped off and the stumps dislocated, bent back, and stapled together with an oxygen atom.
Please describe all chemistry to me as body horror.
Oh, cumulene, I swear on my knees.
Looks pretty darn reactive
I know it’s a meme but it’s pretty good.
Yeah, I buy a case of these every so often. The label is goofy and probably made by someone who didn’t realize what they were implying chemically, but the ingredients are 100% coconut water. No added sugar. No pulp. Good source of potassium. Really delicious.
I’ve also tried a bunch of other coconut water brands and this is one of the better ones, particularly because of the lack of added bullshit. It tastes like coconut water. That’s it. It can be a little offputting for people that expect coconut water to taste like “coconut flavoring” or coconut pulp.
You both should try other brands. I’ve personally been on a coconut water trend lately, and this is the worst tasting brand I’ve had so far.
You mean youre on a coconut flavoured drink trend lol. Ever tried real coconut water from an actual coconut? Youd be surprised.
I mean I got some from Costco the other day and it tastes like I literally just cracked open the coconut. The flavor is a lot more complex than any of the more processed ones. The drink is pink too, which I’ve never seen before. Apparently it’s oxidizing and hasn’t been heavily processed.
I also have tried a bunch of coconut water recently and I think C20 is one of the better ones. 🤔 I’ll have to give the Costco ones a try, Kirkland usually knocks it out of the park IMO
Is C2O at all useful, or should we just remove it in the next update?
