Dihydrogen Monoxide Can Damange Phones

[ralph]

Has anyone else discovered that Di-hydrogen Monoxide can severely damage phones?

I've had several customers destroy a few with it.

Ralph

[dilkie]

I find that pretty usual.

While immersion in di-hydrogen monoxide is safe for humans, assuming they hold their breath and no inhale the compound, electronic devices are not generally so lucky.

I had, in the past, witnessed full immersion of electronic devices (a TV with a picture tube, no less) in this compound but it requires an extremely high level of purity that is difficult to achieve given the solvent effects of hi-hydrogen monoxide.

-lee

[ralph]

What has really surprised me is how much of it, at least where I live, is found in what we drink.
I've heard that at least in one country a MP tried to get it banned.   I suspect that a bunch of rich people talked her out of it.

Ralph

[dilkie]

It's a pretty ubiquitous compound, though not altogether safe. I'm pretty sure the death toll from di-hydrogen monoxide is up in the thousands per year, globally.

[ralph]

There is a nuclear power plant about 5 miles from where I live.   They use it in their cooling systems.  I've seen clouds of it released in it's gaseous state.

Frightening.

Ralph

[dilkie]

and then they try to tell it's "safe in moderation".... sure...

look what it does to Mitel phones!!!

what more proof do you need.

[ralph]

Exactly!

[matthew]

In my experience, it's the dihydrogen monoxide in solution with methyltheobromine that is most common in phone damage. DHMO is nasty stuff. I just got back from vacation where I lost a useful electronic device due to prolonged exposure to dihydrogen monoxide precipitate.

[dilkie]

Indeed, that is true. DHMO is such a common chemical found in office environments that I'm surprised there isn't a material safety sheet (MSDS) on it.

[ralph]

I had a neighbor that was warned by his doctor about methyltheobromine.
He may no attempt to avoid it.
He died about a year after.

Ralph