Can YOU spot the mistake on this water dispenser at Primark?

Eagle-eyed shopper spots a blunder on a water dispenser at the world’s biggest Primark – so, can YOU see the mistake?

  • Chemistry teacher Miss Keloglou, of Bath, spotted error in the formula of water 
  • She admitted not many people would have picked up on the scientific mistake 
  • Fellow science teacher pointed out gaffe suggested it dispensed hydrogen gas 

A chemistry teacher spotted a scientific blunder on a water dispenser in the world’s biggest Primark.

Miss Keloglou, of Bath, discovered the mistake in an Instagram story posted by the retailer featuring a picture of the fountain in the new Birmingham city centre store, which opened last week.

The dispensers, which are dotted around the five-floor, 160,000 sq ft building, claim ‘H20 is on the house’, encouraging shoppers to fill up their own water bottles as they browse the store.

However, the correct formula for water is H2O – using the letter ‘o’, an abbreviation of oxygen, as opposed to the number zero.  

The water fountains, which are dotted around the five-floor, 160,000 sq ft building, claim ‘H20 is on the house’, encouraging shoppers to fill up their own water bottles as they browse the store

Birmingham’s new city centre branch of Primark, which opened last week, is the biggest in the world

Miss Keloglou clocked the amusing oversight and tweeted: ‘I think there is a love-hate relationship between Primark and the formula of water. Surely not many people spotted the mistake. #YouHadOneJob.’

Her tweet received 17 likes – but many Twitter users struggled at first to understand what the issue was.

One explained in a comment below: ‘It’s a 0 [zero] not an O,’ prompting another to admit: ‘Ahhhh I was staring at that for ages and couldn’t work it out.’

A fellow teacher went a step further, joking that the incorrect formula suggests the water fountain dispenses H2, a gas which which forms when two hydrogen atoms bond together and become a hydrogen molecule.

Miss Keloglou clocked the mistake on Primark’s Instagram Stories and tweeted: ‘I think there is a love-hate relationship between Primark and the formula of water. Surely not many people spotted the mistake. #YouHadOneJob’

A fellow Twitter user pointed out the mistake in one of the comments, much to the relief of those who hadn’t managed to work out what was wrong

A fellow teacher went a step further, joking that the incorrect formula suggests the water fountain dispenses H2, a gas which which forms when two hydrogen atoms bond together and become a hydrogen molecule

He tweeted: ‘So technically it dispenses hydrogen gas? Risky stuff….’

Miss Keloglou replied: ‘Oh didn’t think about that! And what about that zero then? Could it be a subscript? H20? A superscript? Degrees? Oh the questions.’ 

It’s not the first scientific error she spotted in the budget friendly retailer. 

She previously tweeted a snap of Primark’s PS H2OHH facial cleansing wipes, captioning the post: ‘Found a H4O molecule in the biggest Primark of the world.’

Miss Keloglou also spotted an unusual chemical formula on Primark’s PS H2OHH facial cleansing wipes

It wasn’t the only gaffe to hit the brand new store. Hours after opening its doors to the public on Thursday, the shop suffered a power cut, plunging shoppers into darkness.

It killed the party atmosphere as it cut the music and also froze the escalators for five minutes, making it tricky for shoppers to reach the higher levels.

The power outage was apparently caused by a city centre issue, with other nearby stores also affected. 

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