When I was little I thought everything could be made out of water or turned back into water! Gold, silver, anything could be heated up and turned into water, even people. I have no idea why I decided this was so, but it wasn't until a field trip in 5th grade to the water refinery that I was informed that not everything was made of water.
A childhood belief about chemistry
others believed things like this
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario