prill water chemistry question

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>>>>OK, now here's where this water fits in with what our ancestors were

doing.. http://www.h-minus-ion.org/index.html

------------->i read this and have a question for those with a better grasp

of chemistry than i. Quote:

" The negative hydrogen ion, also called the hydride ion, was until recently

considered to be primarily the province of plasma physicists. This form of

hydrogen, where the atom bears an extra electron (thus giving it a negative

charge and creating a negative ion)... "

then it goes on to say how this H- is a powerful antioxidant. My question is

how many electrons does it have? 2? electrons are usually found in pairs

which keeps a molecule stable, right? but hydrogen usually has just one? so,

if H- has 2, why would it be prone to donate one of them to a free radical

(which is seeking an electron to make a pair)?

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> then it goes on to say how this H- is a powerful antioxidant. My

>question is> how many electrons does it have? 2? electrons are

>usually found in pairs> which keeps a molecule stable, right? but

>hydrogen usually has just one? so,> if H- has 2, why would it be >

>prone to donate one of them to a free radical> (which is seeking an

> >electron to make a pair)?

I am very poor on chemistry; I hope someone else will address this

question.

H has one proton and one electron. It is very ready to give up that

electron which is why H+ (or H3O) is a common ion in water-based

life, and why we hear about H2 gas rather than H gas. H- would have

one proton and two electrons, making it even less stable than H, and

therefore more transitory. I think it would be a very fleeting state,

depending on the molecules around it and their interactons. My guess

is that it is a very short-lived transitional state that exists only

during a particular chemical reaction, during the hand-off of

electrons and energy, not something that hangs around. It would not

be something you could usefully bottle. (But my chemistry knowledge

is 30 yrs old and wasn't that great to start with.)

I'm skeptical about the glacier water and the deep well water etc and

I'd want to see literature (which probably I couldn't understand

anyway). My guess is that if there is measurably higher H- in those

sources, it would only be true while the water is under those

conditions of temp and pressure, etc. When the glacial water was

thawed and bottle it would be no different in H- content than tap

water. If this stuff is rare, it's rare for a reason. If you can

increase it in water by some easy way, then it exists already at that

level naturally. And most likely it is not doing anything useful

anyway. ly, I am hugely skeptical of that webpage.

(Also I am a bit skeptical about the idea of super-hydrating water.)

Martha

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> electron which is why H+ (or H3O) is a common ion in water-based

(that should be H3O+)