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Old January 20th 06, 12:17 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.local.london,uk.transport.london
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Default More HEX Shenanigans - ripoff Britain?


"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