My son's little friend would not believe that ice cubes were simply frozen water. He was sure there was some secret formula.
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- When i was child, i used to believe i can fly, but i had to find the "formula" for realize it— Magic. W.
- I used to believe that Cuban people were made out of cubesAnon
- When I was young,I thought the lyrics "Secret Agent man" were actually "Secret Asian Man".— M.M.B.
- I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.— Shawna
- My dad he used to tell me that mannequins were actually people who had been frozen.— Alecia
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic