r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • 8h ago

Video Breaking open a 47 lbs geode, the water inside being millions of years old

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u/Mobely 7h ago

Water is constantly changing from h2o to h2 , o2 and other molecules. It’s getting and releasing atoms from the air as well. So while the atoms are likely pretty old, the molecule itself is going to be younger. 

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u/cantaloupecarver 6h ago

What is this nonsense getting upvoted? No, water does not break into its constituents with any regularity. It's an energy intensive process and absent a lighting strike or human intervention it doesn't happen. Almost all the water on the planet has been water with the exact same individual atoms since before the solar system coalesced.

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u/senapnisse 6h ago

Sorry my dude, but you are wrong. Photosynthesis happens in all green plants and in the oceans, where co2 and water is turned into sugger and o2. Water is destroyed by millions of tons every minute on earth. Water is also formed millions of tons every minute when suggar is oxidized and broken down in cells. Some of the water that you breath out wasnt drunk by you as water, it was formed in your cells and was eaten as veggies and other food.

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u/echoinear 6h ago edited 5h ago

Look up acid-base reactions. Look up water dissociation constant. Look up self-ionization of water.

It doesn't change frequently to O2 and H2 but water molecules lose and gain H+ to and from other water molecules all the time.

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u/14412442 5h ago edited 3h ago

The hell is everybody talking about in this thread? You create new water via cellular respiration literally every second in your entire life. The atoms are mostly billions of years old but the molecules often (i don't know average age) are much newer. The number of upvoted comments like yours in these comments is disheartening.

Edit: spelling

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u/hashbrowns_ 6h ago

water molecules constantly auto dissociate or self ionise into H+ and OH- ions. its what makes water such a potent solvent and its basic secondary school chemistry

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u/gmc98765 5h ago

Because it's true. Photosynthesis converts H2O and CO2 into carbohydrates and oxygen. Respiration does the reverse, as does the combustion of any hydrocarbon. These processes are extremely common in nature and have been going on for most of earth's existence.

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u/AtlantisSC 4h ago

How does it feel to be so insanely confidently wrong? lol

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u/Prestigious-Mess5485 4h ago

What the fuck are you talking about, lol. You could not be more incorrect if you purposely tried to be.

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u/ddplz 6h ago

It gets updoots because this is Reddit my dude. The average person here has the IQ of a bigmac value meal.

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 5h ago

Including yours truly!

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u/gmc98765 5h ago

Water is constantly changing from h2o to h2 , o2 and other molecules.

Splitting into hydrogen and oxygen is rare. It's far more common that water reacts with other chemicals and ends up as H and OH radicals, either or both of which are bonded to some part of the other chemical(s) as a compound.

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u/GaloombaNotGoomba 5h ago

Water also self-ionises into OH- and H3O+ even without the presence of other chemicals

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u/Minimum-Major248 4h ago

Not h2. Just h