Arrrggghh!!! What is the correct chemical name for water?

[g__day]

This is bugging my wife and I now - any takers with a chemistry background?

The contestants include:

Di-hydrogen Monooxide
Di-hydrous Oxide
Di-hydrogen Oxide
Di-hydrogen Oxygen
Oxidized Hydrogen
Oxidized Hydronium
Oxidized Di-hydronium
Hydrogen Oxide
Hydrogen Hydroxide
Hydrohydroxic acid
Di-hydronium Hydroxide
Di-hydronium Monooxide
Di-hydronium Oxygen

Amazing that in an age of Google we can't seem to get and answer, even from a popular US website (able2know) with a chemistry section we don't have agreement!

Does anyone here absolutely know the correct chemical name for simple old H2O?

 

[epicstruggle]

hydrogen dioxide?

 

[RussSchultz]

hydrogen dioxide?

No, that would be HO2

 

[epicstruggle]

hydrogen dioxide?

No, that would be HO2

thats what i get for posting after a double shift.
later,
epic

 

[rabidrabbit]

Di-hydrogen Mono-oxide
...i quess

H2 (di-hydrogen)
O (Mono-oxide)

...not sure though

 

[Tim Murray]

I thought it was dihydrous monoxide. but whatever.

 

[rabidrabbit]

Dihydrous monoxide sounds good. Better than Di-hydrogen Mono-oxide

 

[epicstruggle]

accoriding to wikipedia:
Dihydrogen monoxide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water

 

[mondoterrifico]

http://www.dhmo.org

 

[davefb]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4534017/

hehehehehe .
i like "is the major component of acid rain" . . .
-dave-

 

[akira888]

It's not "Dihydrogen monooxide," just as you wouldn't call H2S "Dihydrogen monosulfide" but rather "Hydrogen sulfide." (Its' real name) Whenever hydrogen forms a covalent bond with a nonmetal the nomenclature excludes numerical prefixes; therefore, it's actually "Hydrogen oxide."

 

[davefb]

erm, well 20 yrs ago when i was at school,, we were taught the new way of naming

theres a reasonable link here
http://science.widener.edu/svb/pset/nomen_b.html
or here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_name
so i'm sticking with dihydrogen monoxide

it's probably yet-another-europe-america thing , though i recal my dad was taught the other way in the 60's !
-dave-
hmm see what your saying akira , , , , , i now know why i did rubbish at chemistry

 

[Sxotty]

It's not "Dihydrogen monooxide," just as you wouldn't call H2S "Dihydrogen monosulfide" but rather "Hydrogen sulfide." (Its' real name) Whenever hydrogen forms a covalent bond with a nonmetal the nomenclature excludes numerical prefixes; therefore, it's actually "Hydrogen oxide."

Akira they are right and you are wrong, but it is no big deal .

That is because acording to you than hydrogen peroxide (h2o2) would be name hydrogien oxide. The naming conventions and what things are actually called are different of course b/c water is water . But if it only has one oxidation state like h2s then they shorten it to hydrogensulfide.

 

[bloodbob]

The answer is water I'm pretty sure. Though while we are adding names of what it could be Hydronol and Dihydrogen ether.

 

[B&R]

DiHydrogen MonOxide. I think you need to have a loss of electron(??) or hydrogen for it to be called hydrous.


Damn this brings the horrors of chemistry days to me.

 

[PC-Engine]

Octet Rule

 

[digitalwanderer]

I'm not sure yet, but I think it's gonna drive me wife a bit nuts now that I showed it to her. (She's a pharmacist and it's bugging her now. )

 

[Bambers]

always thought of it as hydrogen oxide myself. :|


Still if one thing is for certain its that sulphide and sulphur etc is spelt with a ph and not an f ok?

 

[speng]

It's simply Hydrogen Oxide.

H2O

You need 2 hydrogen atoms for the one oxygen to make it stable.


Think of Hydrogen Chloride...HCL. Since Chlorine has 7 atoms it only needs 1 Hydrogon to form the cloride.

With Oxygen it needs 2...H20 Hydrogen Oxide.

Just like the Bromides, Chlorides, Sulphides...ides hehe...


Speng.