If it takes two molecules of hydrogen for one of oxygen to form water, why is there more oxygen than hydrogen in our oceans?
In: Chemistry
There isn’t, if you count number of atoms. But such measurements are usually done by *weight*, and each oxygen atom weighs, on average, about 16x more than each hydrogen atom. So even though there are two hydrogen atoms per oxygen atom, there’s still 8x more oxygen by weight.
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