I also prefer "hydrogen hydroxide" because it is closer to actual chemical nomenclature. One time in grad-school I filled a bottle with water and labeled it "Hydrogen Hydroxide: 55.5 Molar" and sat it back on the shelf. I still sometimes wonder if anyone ever realized.
Someone I know refuses to eat anything that has any chemicals in it - I'm a chemist so I listed these chemicals and told her this was the ingredients of one of my favourite foods, she went nuts screaming about how people like me were killing ourselves with the foods we ate, I'd listed the chemicals in blueberries. Everything is a list of hard to pronounce chemicals if you break it down.
Oddly enough my blood is actually trying to kill me right now. Well, technically my body is attacking proteins in my blood, causing clots, which are trying to kill me. I just thought that was a fun little anecdote to throw in here.
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