Warp wrote:

>   Atomic and molecular chemistry is one of the wackiest phenomena of
> nature I can think of.
> 
>   Take an innocent harmless molecule, remove one atom from it, and it might
> be converted into a deadly poison.

Or, for example, take something like normal diatomic Oxygen, O2. This 
simple molecule is required for all animal life. Now convert it to the 
resonance hybrid, O3, and you have a carginogen. Cute, eh?

Also, D2O is very slightly poisonous - and technically it's "the same 
chemical" as H2O...

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