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Live: Is Sparkling Water Actually Water?

Comic Myq Kaplan and Dan debate the definition of water. Plus, is picking all the pretzels out of a snack mix wrong? A philosophy professor tells us what Socrates would say. Taped live on stage!

Is Sparkling Water Actually Water?

Water is H2O. When you add CO2 it produces carbonic acid, which accounts for seltzer's taste. At first I thought that made it something other than water, because it's not simply H2O anymore. But by that logic flavored water isn't water either. So what do you think?