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submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite

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[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm more a fan of "that one fused 7 and 6 memebered ring diazacycle that has that guanidine sorta thing going on that people use as a strong base when their molecule is too much of a coward to handle a real base, shit, the fuck is it called... a oops it's not guanidine, the fuck is the nitrogen version of an ester called, yeah that", personally.

[-] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

That description totally nails.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wed rather deal with the formula and/or structure itself tbh.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Geoscientist here. I concur. The names are punny sometimes (this example in particular), but usually non-descriptive. Exceptions for the super common things (quartz, pyrite) when used in a discussion where the chemistry is irrelevant in that specific context. Conversely, we generally don't care about the chemistry when talking about "clays" in geophysics, so defining them chemically would become noise to the reader.

[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I don´t know anything about chemistry and even I know that iupac is a strength, not weakness. I also have a tendency to take memes too seriously though :)