"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
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Graeme Wall wrote:
(Aidan Stanger) wrote:
They don't even have to be separate words! TNT is trinitrotoluene,
A pedant writes:
Tri-Nitro-Toluene, it is not one word
Au contrai under IUPAC rules, it is, and there are no internal
hyphens or capitals.
But you should really specify that you mean
2,4,6-trinitrotoluene
with commas and hyphen.
Peter