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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This terrible chemical directly caused the pressure increase that lead to Chernobyl.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was used in some Auschwitz showers instead of Zyklon B.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Alright let's stop it here.

Btw there weren't any gas showers, they were put into huge slaughterhouses that were then filled with Zyklon B.

Idk where the myth of the shower comes from.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Pretty much, yes but the slaughter houses were said to be shower areas and were sometimes even disguised in a manner (signs and fake shower heads).

I loathe to link to Reddit, but askhistorians /u/commiespaceinvader is s legit source as Holocaust historian:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/87hpr5/did_the_jews_know_that_the_showers_were_actually/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They were told they were being given showers, and there were fake showerheads installed to continue the ruse. There were no pipes connected to the showers, the Nazis dropped canisters down chutes. The shower contrivance makes sense as a way to get them to strip “willingly” to get at any last valuables hidden in their clothes without having to bother with the bodies.

I think the popular imagination goes to that scene in Schindlers List - the very tense scene where the Schindlerjuden get shipped to Auschwitz and we don’t know if they’re going to be killed or not.

This is something we have to be careful when talking about - because all of those complicated discrepancies between memory and rumor are the muck Holocaust deniers like to throw everywhere. I found an online “uncensored Holocaust encyclopedia” on the first page of DuckDuckGo before I found this link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Probably because that's what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

spoilerGuards told them they would be taking showers to get them to go willingly and remove their clothes (easier than doing it after they're dead).

Or so I've heard, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bro, have you seen what happens to metals when they are exposed for a prolonged period of time to dihydrogen monoxide?? This is crazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pure DHMO is actually pretty inert. It’s only once you add ions of sodium (a highly reactive metal) and chlorine (a highly toxic gas) that it starts damaging metal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It also won’t conduct electricity without something dissolved in it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

A mixture of HDO and h2o.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago

Everyone who drinks it will die.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Where I live, we have periodic episodes of this stuff raining down from the clouds (possibly due to natural chemtrails), and we have to stay indoors until it passes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Where I live it does that so often that many people from the area are known to just go outside and walk in it with no extra protection or shielding. Crazy in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's alarming how much this chemical is found in high concentration in the tissues of human bodies.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More prevalent than microplastics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I saw a study that DHMO is stored in the balls.

[–] RamblingPanda 2 points 2 months ago

I guess you could use a centrifuge to get it out, blending beforehand?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Spoiler alert IT IS CHEMTRAILS!! Wake up sheeple.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (6 children)

But I'd literally die without it.

[–] RamblingPanda 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Addiction. Oh you poor soul...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Very addictive. People abstaining from it for 24 hours will crave it like nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Don't try and justify your addiction to it!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

we also die from lack or too much "dioxide" or dioxygen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No, those are just the withdrawal symptoms due to your addiction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nice story bro.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

Its also a waste product from many industrial processes and can remain stable in the environment for millions of years!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

You know the Grand Canyon? It was created due to Dihydrogen Monoxide destroying rocks. Imagine what it would do to your body.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The jokeWe're talking about water.

As a normie subscriber to here I only know this off hand from a skit where college kids were collecting signatures to ban it. It was all factual statements just presented to be scary. They told them it was water after a bit and it was a good laugh.

Made me think Dihydrogen H~2~ monoxide O

I found it entertaining but it taught me not to jump to conclusions and educate myself before making a decision.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Spread awareness of the hazards of DHMO

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I've personally seen a strong correlation between ingesting DMHO and autism. This is why I only give my children mashed potato mix now.

A lot of eye-opening info here

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Chemtrails are full of this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

It's considered by chemists to be a universal solvent. It's more acidic than bleach. And they want this stuff in our tap water!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Many many moons ago.....

I was high schooler that didn't know how to say H2O.

Please subscribe for more water facts.

Cool beans

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Hydroxyl acid? That sounds even more dangerous than hydrogen hydroxide, which is a notoriously dangerous base!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

only 4500? I'm sure hydroxil acid exposure plays a role in millions of deaths every year

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

Thats definitely convinced majority of americans who have seen it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago