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How To Tell If Someone’s a Chemist

Posted on 21/03/2013 by allthingswhichareirrelevant

Ask them to pronounce the word ‘unionised’. According to Isaac Asimov: Non-chemists will pronounce it “union-ised”, and chemists will pronounce it “un-ionised”. I think the same could be said for carbocation. Non-chemists would pronounce it carbo-cation, and chemists would pronounce … Continue reading →

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