Kind of a hydrogen hydrate then?  :D

(ducks and runs)

On May 29, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

> How about "hydronium hydroxide," since the cation which makes the pH
> of pure water 7.0 is generally a hydrogen ion bonded to one (H3O+,
> the so-called "hydronium" ion) or as many as four unionized water
> molecules because of the polar character of the latter (coming full
> circle to the wisecrack which started this subthread . . . ).  So we
> have in pure water a small number of molecules ionized to create
> pairs such as H3O+ OH-, H5O2+ OH-, H7O3+ OH-, and H9O4+ OH-.
>
>
> . . . ronn!  :)

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