Peter Masson wrote:
"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
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.

Oh indeed, but I was going for the simplest outcome. (Do you think the
MI5 scanning algorithms have picked up this conversation yet?)
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