# Dihydrogen monoxide: dangerous?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 28, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229 "2000-02-28T01:06:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/21 "2000-03-01T23:23:00Z")
You people make me sick!
Have you no respect for the farmers, who use this stuff to grow **YOUR** food? It would kill the industry if it were banned. And not only that, but it’s used in many, many beverages. Check the ingredients the next time you swig that snapple. Don’t be so quick to dismiss the lifeblood of modern American industry.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/22 "2000-03-01T23:25:00Z")
Hear, Hear! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/23 "2000-03-01T23:32:00Z")
These so-called farmers also spray our foods with poisonous pesticides. In that light, how can we trust them to properly dispence a potentially toxic chemical like DHMO onto their entire crop?
If we can land a man on the moon, we should be able to come up with safer alternatives to DHMO.
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### Author:  [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/24 "2000-03-01T23:38:00Z")
It’s also the MAJOR constituent in acid rain.
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“What can I say, I luuuvv my condiments”, - inertiacakes
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### Author:  [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/25 "2000-03-01T23:47:00Z")
It’s also a major ingredient in your precious condiments. I have a bottle of ketchup here, and I quote, “Ingredients: Tomatoes, Dihydrogen Monoxide, ketchup flavorings, Red D & C 40”
Ha. In fact, double ha.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/26 "2000-03-02T02:37:00Z")
It’s a major ingredient in manny manny items we consume daily:
Pepsi-Cola: Carbonated DHMO is the first ingredient. (Nobody’s messing with my Pepsi fixes!)
Campbells Chunky vegetable soup: DMHO is the first ingredient.
Aunt Jemima maple-flavore syrup: DMHO is the fourth ingredient.
Heck, my Pillsbury and Duncan Hines cake mixes actually _instruct people to add DMHO_ during preparation!
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/27 "2000-03-02T16:09:00Z")
In fact, I hear that in Ohio, Dihydrogen monoxide has been known to cause fires!
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Chaim Mattis Keller
[ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com)
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
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### Author:  [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/28 "2000-03-02T16:29:00Z")
That’s just an old wive’s tale. Next thing, you’re going to tell me you can’t pour battery acid on your salad! You wacky environmentalists.
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### Author:  [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/29 "2000-03-02T16:40:00Z")
Despite my admitted dependence on this stuff, I still can’t take it straight unless it has been chilled almost to its solid state. I injest large quantities daily (even at work), but it must be flavored in some way to make it palatable. While I realize that it has taken many lives, I just can’t help myself. Is there no respite from this chemical tyranny!
And to make matters worse, there was about a 1/2 inch of the stuff accumulated outside my home this morning, with more falling from the sky! What’s a person to do!
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/30 "2000-03-02T17:09:00Z")
Why, I’m so depraved, I even use it to make my coffee! 🙂
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Not that it’s gone to my head or anything.
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### Author:  [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/31 "2000-03-02T17:21:00Z")
It’s my understanding that Dihydrogen monoxide doesn’t mix well with petrolium based products. I’m sorry I can’t provide a link to it. Maybe it’s an UL.
New and Improved
Enright3
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### Author:  [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dihydrogen-monoxide-dangerous/14229/32 "2000-03-02T17:24:00Z")
Hey, don’t forget that dihydrogen monoxide is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Just think what that means for global warming!
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