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January 20th 06, 11:20 AM
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More HEX Shenanigans - ripoff Britain?
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. see, e.g. http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/79/r79_61.htm -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p14515951.html (Barclay shunter Meaford No 1 (no TOPS class) at Embsay, 30 Apr 2005) |
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January 20th 06, 12:17 PM
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"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. Peter |
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January 20th 06, 03:55 PM
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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?) -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p10589953.html (37 668 at Newport(Wales), 9 Apr 1998) |
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