Comment: Re:DHMO (Score 2) 463
> Dihydrogenmonoxide is just not IUPAC conform. Or would you call methane with a systematic name of "Tetrahydrogen monocarbide"?
Well, it's not like it's entirely unbased: there's "dicholorine monoxide", for instance, and similar metal-free compounds tend to follow the same rules. Incidentally, the compound most like water, Hydrogen Sulfide, is also know as "Dihydrogen monosulfide". You can even have some fun with it too, and call it "Hydrooxidic acid" or something.
I would also point out that "oxiran" is already taken as a name for the epoxide functional group. In fact, the IUPAC name for ethylene oxide, an extraordinarily toxic gas, is "oxirane". That would kind of subvert the misleadingly-named safe chemical thing. Also worth noting is that "hydride" specifically means a negatively charged or metallicly bonded hydrogen. Since water is neither of these (with the covalently bonded hydrogen having a very significant partial positive charge), I'd say "Oxygen Hydride" is actually quite a bit less accurate than "Dihydrogen Monoxide".