If water contains Oxygen, then why can’t we breath it?
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Oxygen in water is aqueous. Which means it’s completely dissolved. Typically we breath oxygen as 2 molecules bonded together. However in water those bonds break and it ionizes. Turning 2 bonded oxygen into 2 separate oxygen molecules each with a slight electrical charge.
Our lungs can’t handle that kind of oxygen. The same way fish can’t handle our airborne O2.
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