RE: Water, water, everywhere.....
October 31, 2014 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2014 at 9:13 pm by Jackalope.)
(October 31, 2014 at 4:24 pm)LastPoet Wrote: IIRC, H2 is the most common, then H2O gets sloppy seconds on that, thanks to those crazy two lonely electrons on the upper layer of the oxygen atom.
(October 31, 2014 at 8:36 pm)Chuck Wrote: H2 is. ~70% of the atoms in the universe by mass, a much higher proportion by sheer number, are hydrogen. Most of rest are helium. There is simply not enough O in the universe to allow H2O to compete in frequency of occurrence.
H2 isn't a compound.
Quote:A chemical compound is a pure chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemical elements[1][2][3] that can be separated into simpler substances by chemical reactions.[4]