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Is it not clear that the charitable reading of "XYZ" doesn't involve xenon, yttrium, or zinc in particular? I mean, as you point out, that involves two extra letters. I think XYZ were just a sequence of letters chosen to stand in for something not H2O.
I know. I was just using that as an example. At first I was going to go with something clearly impossible, like a compound of noble gasses.
My point was that even if it's nothing like water in our universe, if you were really willing to mess with the laws of physics, you could make it behave like water, but make everything else stay pretty much the same.