Our fear of anything with a chemical name isn’t likely to go away anytime soon. A few years ago the comedians Penn and Teller did an experiment. They sent a friend to a fair in California to get signatures on a petition to ban dihydroxymonoxide. Hundreds of people signed the petition, convinced that the chemical was bad for you. Dihydrox means two hydrogen (H) atoms and monoxide means one oxygen (O) atom. The combination, H2O, is water. By using a chemical name, their friend was able to convince hundreds of people to ban water from the face of the Earth.
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