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[Nonsense] About the meaning of project name

Open ClSlaid opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Feel free to close this issue, this issue just contains some nonsense thinking about the project names. :)

Chemically (or physically) speaking, protons ( $H^{+}$ ) in acid solutions will produce oxonium with water: $$H^{+} + H_{2}O \rightarrow H_{3}O^{+}$$

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Oxonium

So you can announce that the project's name means oxonium proudly in the README.md.

ClSlaid avatar Jan 11 '23 05:01 ClSlaid

Yeah, IIUC oxonium is another name for the hydronium ion.

My point was more about that the backstory of the name (oxydation of H3) doesn't really match the real life reaction (protonation of water), as your equation demonstrates.

But I'm fine with it ^^

grim7reaper avatar Jan 11 '23 11:01 grim7reaper