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We joke but oxygen is a caustic poison and when it came on the scene, evolution practically had to start over
Linking to this got me permanently banned from the entire Libera IRC network, apparently because a random snowflake mod also happened to be named Walter and decided it was a personal attack.
HOW DARE YOU BAD MOUTH RUST LIKE THAT! Rust is natural, and isn’t anything bad. Let your body rust, and accept it’s warm embrace.
!/s!<
In rust we trust!
Have you tried doing it in Rust?
nah, i do tea
Just iron try to protect life from Cyanobacteria. The war is over, but it fights on.
Yes. Oxygen does degrade our bodies. Unfortunately, we also need it to stay alive. Life be like that.
Oh yeah, reactive oxygen species, right? But iirc those are only confined to certain parts of the cell
It’s reported that many people who have died had varying amounts of oxygen in their bloodstream at the time of death.
Oxidative stress is a major factor in health and longevity. People who stop breathing oxygen before dieing generally live a bigger proportion of their lives healthy on average.
Isn’t that there one of them… “forever chemicals”? 😂
Never trust atoms, they make up everything.
I’ve also heard that electrons in them cannot be relied upon - especially to be anywhere that they say they will (instead, they zip off to the other side of the whole galaxy/universe, then before you can tell anyone they’re gone, they are back again!) :-P.
This isn’t wrong. Don’t put oxygen on a pedastal, it’s toxic stuff.
I mean, it wouldn’t stay on the pedestal anyway. It would just float away.
It won’t float away if you freeze it first, of course it will sublimate away but not all at once.
Edit: Melts, doesn’t sublimate, still won’t melt all at once though.
At atmospheric pressure it wouldn’t sublimate. It would just melt, then boil.
Good point, though it still won’t melt all at once though it takes time to melt and boil (not much time but still takes time).
That’s just lack of creativity from your part.
The OP didn’t say the composition of the pedestal, if it has cavities, its temperature…
This but unitronically
everyday
Next.
Alright.
Oxygen is one of the most reactive gases. It can burn iron at 100°C.
It can burn diamond at 720 °C, what do you think it’ll do to soft tissue over the course of an entire lifetime. Things helping aerobic life survive are
a) partially consisting of partially oxidized polymers in the form of carbohydrates (remember, the only thing that cannot burn is what has already been burned);
b) oxygen’s peculiar, natural triplet state which greatly slows down its kinetics compared e.g. to its horrible relative, ozone.
Wait until they hear about a particularly nasty form of oxygen, dihydrogen monoxide.
I prefer the IUPAC name: Oxidane. Terrible stuff, it’s even used as an industrial solvent and yet we are exposed to it every single day of our lives!
If you think that is bad, just wait til you learn about Dihydrogen Monoxide. That shit kills.
Stop downplaying it, call it by its most descriptive name:
Hydric acid100% of the people who drink dihydrogen monoxide eventually end up dying. Shit’s dangerous
Who’s got that copypasta about how humans breathe poison and if you break their legs they just keep following you?
I read some interesting comment before (so take it with a grain of salt) where someone who knew a bit of chemistry said, ‘in a way we actually are damaged by the oxygen we breathe’. Details foggy but they mentioned that’s kinda what free radicals are about, that we are burning up on a cellular level, albiet over the course of our lifetimes
It’s true. The medical field over the last few decades has curbed when to give patients high flow concentrated oxygen for this reason.
Yeah it’s why we have antioxidants. The idea is oxygen is constantly stealing electrons from nearby molecules and antioxidants help replace those electrons.
Life is just a constant form of slow death. Up until your body simply can’t replace the old cells fast enough anymore.
Oh good i remembered it roughly right. you happen to have a good layman-friendly source just laying around? id love a refresher. I don’t usually outsource my searches but i mustve used the wrong terms earlier, cuz i keep getting bunk ass health scam sites
This website I found has a decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidative_stress
Hey, tyvm :)
This may be a good source for it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663961-how-not-to-die
The book is about food, but mostly it talks about oxidation of the body and how various foods affect that, because that seems to be the main factor for aging and other degradation of the body. (TL;dr: eat a lot of broccoli)
I’m not an expert though, so cannot judge how accurately the science is presented
Thanks, I’m not either so this will help me a ton. Thanks!
