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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Its not even carbonated. I bought it thinking that carbonated coconut water would be awesome. It is not but tastes pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

For that record, coconut water is disgusting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's also one of the few ways to get enough potassium, an essential nutrient for life (that, or eat a shitload of avocado-based dishes every single day). Learn to love it if you want to live a long life. There are also coconut-based drinks like Body Armor that don't taste like coconut, but nothing beats the original source when it comes to getting the most potassium per dollar. So it's best to get used to it and get over it like I did. Eventually you'll enjoy the taste.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Use a little salt substitute on your food. It's potassium salt instead of sodium, and contains a lot more of it than those completely worthless pills.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Spoken like someone who has never had fresh coconut water straight from a fresh coconut.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Coconut water is awesome, when it comes straight from the coconut. The crap they sell in cartons is depressing and disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The carton stuff literally tasted like sweat the one time I tried

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you drink it, you will make that face :C=C=O

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Or would it be an epoxy ring

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Co² water would be cool though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Isn’t that just LaCroix?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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)?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

it’s a pretty unusual chemical

Yeah, I can't even find an SDS for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That was the ELI10, subsection "Basic Lab Safety."

If you want an ELICHEM5320 that's on you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hi, I'd like the ELICHEM5320 pls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That'll be $5000.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Is C2O at all useful, or should we just remove it in the next update?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Man I thought I'd never have to remember the coconut story from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Hm, I needed a new stage name, thx

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I love me some Suspicious White Fluid to go with my Mystery Meat

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That sounds as bad an idea as the other drink, H2O4U

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

And don't even think about drinking their flavored H2SO4.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bro I tried some and I was looking absolutely radiant afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I love hot beverages!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It is soluble in water...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Dicarbonmonoxide juice sounds gross

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