wg48temp9 - 10-7-2024 at 15:23
One of my parcel delivery companies thinks hydrogen oxide (presumable water) is an oxidant or a peroxide so they will not deliver it. ??? Did all the
people that must have read this at the company not think this was crazy?
I guess its only a matter of time before someone proposes baqnning dihydrogen oxide.
BromicAcid - 10-7-2024 at 15:28
You can likely assume they mean hydrogen peroxide, I'm more amused that "unknown chemical components" are defaulted as oxidizers. Then again to the
non-chemist hydrogen oxide might mean hydrogen peroxide since you might assume one hydrogen to one oxygen, unlike dihydrogen monoxide which is the
humorous way to say water. That being said hydrogen oxide would refer to the usual oxidation state of water so it should be H2O but who knows. When
you let a non-chemist at one of these things odd things happen, or perhaps it was written in a different language and lost in translation.
I used to work for a hazardous waste company and someone at my company said they were disposing of methyl cyanide on the MSDS. The disposal company
rejected the shipment and the truck was about to turn around when I pointed out to them that methyl cyanide is just acetonitrile.