Whoever designed that image should have to return the Fe they were paid.
Whenever abbreviations don't make sense, you can safely assume it's Latin.
This is medicine in a nutshell too. And not just abbreviations, but acronyms... for words in a language that no one uses. I hate it.
I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.
And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.
Ridiculous.
I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.
Strange that 'classics' are taught mostly in the poshest schools. It's rare for elites to want to preserve any power they have and make it inaccessible to oiks. /s
Well, what other language should be used? Latin is the language of science because there's no way we'd ever agree on which alive language to use.
I didn't say it was a bad system or that we need to change it: I said I hate it.
Fair enough haha
Can you give an eggsample?
Couple common ones... there are hundreds of these.
Acronym - Full Latin - English
PRN - pro re nata - as needed
NPO - nil per os - nothing my mouth
AC - ante cibum - before eating
OD - oculus dexter - right eye
OS - oculus sinister - left eye
Q8H - quaque octava hora - every 8 hours
QED
What about tungsten or sodium?
Apparently tungsten is also known as Wolfram, so that's the W. Sodium Na is from neo-latin.
It's Na from Natrium (I have no idea why you even call it Sodium in English)
It's called Sodium in English because an English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy discovered it & named it "Sodium" He was able to isolate it via separation of caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and therefore named it after the caustic soda "soda-ium". A few years later, a German chemist (Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert) was able to isolate it and named it "Natronium" Just under a decade later, Jöns Jacob Berzelius coined the term "Natrium" as he felt the name "Natronium" was too lengthy to catch on.
As to exactly why the earlier term was not respected is likely due to nationalism. During the earlier 1800's a lot of countries were desperately trying to take claim for various rapid advancements in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and medicine. Getting to have the name that "your guy" coined was largely bent around national pride.
Iridium quality cereal? ConcernedApe is so good to us!
It's hard to make though. You have to harvest Iridium quality Wheat and mine for Iridium bars and then build the Advanced Cereal Irradiator on your farm to craft it.
It's hard to do until year 2.
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
Everyone knows that iron, like all abbreviated four-letter nouns gets abbreviated as the first three letters.
Iro
Jun
Fuc
See? Easy peasy
Iroh, Junk, Fuc.... uhhhh... Fucu fish? Fucy, a name like "Lucy" but absolute garbtrash?
... Yeah okay that one's just "Fuck." But let's talk about Iroh anyway! He's way cool.
That's some expensive cereal...
Probably cheap compared to that Kashi stuff.
Takes a distant third to magic spoon
Yeah, my good buddy is from Genovia, where they use a regional version of the periodic table with more human-friendly names. They use Ca for calcium, Ir for iron, Hy for hydrogen, and Ox for oxygen. This change was their answer to the metric system—a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.
Back in the 1960s, Gennovia was looking to bolster its local industry and economy. The government decided that simplifying scientific terms would help more people get into science and technology fields. It seems to be working because their literacy rates in science are through the roof? Somehow. They even have Ni for nickel and Si for silver, making it so much easier to remember what’s what. I didn’t know it was prevalent enough that it made its way onto package branding tho. Interesting stuff.
a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.
everyone that speaks English...
10/10 chain jerking
i’m jerking their chains🤣
Well I didn't expect to see a Meg Cabot reference on Lemmy. (She's actually a family friend believe it or not.)
Can confirm Genovia doesn't a fuck about IUPAC and its naming conventions.
Love me some cereal fortified with Iridium
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Feman
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If they put the correct symbol there it would read café
Also a good source of California
Fe
Of course that's iron. What, is that a Latin root or something?
If they put "Fe" on it, too many people would boycott it for gendering the cereal.
Scanning for Iridium.
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