Re: H2On for n>2

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Date: 01/29/05 

Date: 28 Jan 2005 21:20:44 -0800

KellyClarksonTV wrote:
> How about hydrogen superoxide? There's no way hydrogen and oxygen
form only 2
> compounds.

Hydrogen superoxide radicals HO2(.) are known and thought to be the
cause of bleaching action of hydrogen peroxide (say oxygen bleaches for
the laundry). Note that even H2O4 or higher has never been isolated in
pure and studied as a compound in detail.