How do you know if it's not a Water Molecule?

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anor277
Sep 14, 2017

Because water is SPECIFIED to be H_2O, i.e. oxygen in the O(-II) state......

Explanation:

And clearly this atomic composition can be verified experimentally.

If you have H-O-O-H, we gots oxygen in the stackrel(-I)O state....the O-O bond is relatively weak, and its length is 1.474xx10^-10*m.

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