I was reading the NASCAR boards and someone got a new sponsor who makes “oxygen-enhanced mineral water”. Wouldn’t that be something other than H2O? Is it drinkable and non-toxic?
Maybe they replace the air at the top of the bottle with pure oxygen. Maybe there are holes in the bottle so that you suck in air with your water like those “light” cigarettes. One thing’s for sure, the world doesn’t need it.
What’s the name of the sponsor?
Did you actually want to discuss it, or just to complain about it?
It’d be a lot like hydrogen peroxide.
Is it maybe just fizzy mineral water. Fizzy, as in carbonated, as in carbon dioxide, as in oxygen enhanced? Is that enough to not fall foul of advertising standards?
H2O2, as has been said, is hydrogen peroxide. If the ad copy has any meaning at all, which is debatable, it would be saying that the water has increased levels of oxygen dissolved in it.
H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide. “oxygen-enhanced” describing mineral water probably means they bubble oxygen gas through the water increasing the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water.
Is it ionized oxygen, like those used to grow fish in crowded tanks?
Carbon dioxide is not oxygen. Oxygen does not dissolve in water to any measurable degree, meaning any oxygen that is temporarily entrained in a bottle of this magic exlair will end up in the ullage space between the liquid and cap.
Is this Penta Water, which has a “revolutionary, patented 13-step, 11-hour filtration and purification process includes spinning our water under high speed and pressure (cavitation). This extra step produces smaller, more readily absorbed water clusters, providing advanced hydration.”
I don’t know what a “water cluster” is, but it sounds nearly as awesome as drinking juiced kale and beet for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Stranger
OXYwater. As the title states, I want to know what H2O becomes when you add more O. Did you want to discuss it or just threadshit? I can talk racing and the politics thereof all day.
The fish of the world beg to differ.
H2O2, known as hydrogen peroxide, is a chemical formula in which the molecules are bonded to each other, like this:
H-O-O-H.
H2O, or water, looks like this:
H-O-H
Water also has oxygen (molecular oxygen or O2) dissolved in it (it’s what fish “breathe” as water passes over their gills. The dissolved O2 gets absorbed by the gills. Its not the oxygen as part of the water molecule itself theyre breathing), just like you might dissolve sugar or salt in a cup of water.
I’m guessing (but don’t know) that what this product has is yet more oxygen dissolved in normal water.
ETA: I googled the name. Here is the “about page” OXYwater - Benefits From the page: “This is where OXYwater™ gets its name. Using a special patented process, we add O2. Lots of it. This gives OXYwater™ its clean, crisp, light, fresh taste. Some people claim the extra oxygen may have health benefits as well.”
See how it says they add lots of O2- that’s molecular oxygen, the kind we breathe and the kind that dissolves in water.
So it appears that the surplus of dissolved oxygen will end up in the airspace at the top. I guess that it’s heavier than air so it’ll mostly remain inside the bottle and would be beneficial if you suck it all out before drinking. My experience is that the air bubble mostly moves to the opposite end of the bottle where you can’t take advantage of the oxygen enhancement.
Having grown tolerant of the sales pitch behind bottled water, I get riled up again when somebody tosses more woo on top of it. I didn’t think it would still be classified as water once you added extra oxygen.
The amount of dissolved oxygen water varies naturally. Still makes it water.
I know that, for goodness sake. It mostly is though! I was just exploring a possible dodgy marketing-speak angle, that’s all.
Heh heh. The oxidize it and then add in antioxidants.
Whomp!
I hope it’s nothing like “ice-9.”
Ice IX never did no harm to nobody. It’s just a little colder and denser.
<Like my ex. Thank you and goodnight!>
They’re the chains that water molecules form naturally when in liquid form, united by hydrogen bonds. For some purposes (most notably evaporation and solidification), water doesn’t behave as being composed by individual packages of H2O, but by little chains (H2O)n; since this is actually irrelevant for reaction purposes, any reactions will be writen using H2O. I remember my teachers saying that calculations based on “guesses of what the boiling temperature would be if there were no hydrogen bonds” show n to be about 8, but of course that doesn’t mean a glass of water contains a zillion exactly-8-molecules-long chains or that n is the same under any conditions of pressure and temperature. One of my classmates got smartass and asked “so if it’s about 8, how do you get the decimals?” and the teacher answered “the decimals are the charged clusters” (he later told us that no, he hadn’t gotten the question before but if you can’t think on your feet after 20 years of teaching smartasses and 50 of being one you should change jobs).
And it should be added that any claims that water cluster size have anything to do whatsoever with health or hydration or anything of that nature are complete bullshit.