Talk:hydrogen monoxide

This entry seems...off. Dihydrogen monoxide is, as the term implies, H2O (i.e. water). But hydrogen monoxide would be HO, not H2O. The one cannot be the other. Plus, more importantly, hydrogen monoxide doesn't actually exist. -- Hux (talk) 03:47, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Maybe this article should plainly state as much, that hydrogen monoxide does not exist, and would quickly turn into dihydrogen monoxide (water) if it ever tried to exist (assuming this statement can be verified as true). - 75.173.139.216 21:06, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

The word hydrogen monoxide is used in the book Stranger in a Strange Land, chapter 11. "All of them, as is always the case, were infected with that oddity of distorted entropy called life; in the cases of the third and fourth planets their surface temperatures cycled around the freezing point of hydrogen monoxide - in consequence they had developed life forms similar enough to permit a degree of social contact." - 75.173.139.216 21:06, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * In binary compounds the number of atoms of each element is not always stated. This is especially true when there is only one compound of the two elements. I shall update the entry accordingly. SemperBlotto (talk) 04:34, 16 October 2017 (UTC)