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Originally Posted by ColinTheAmpMan1
Would you believe that some years ago there was a madcap idea to change the names of the chemical elements to more "systematic" names. So, oxygen would become "octium" (element No 8) and hydrogen would become "unium" (element No 1). Water then gets renamed "octium di-uniide".
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I once freaked-out a chemically-naiive type by telling him that the INTeL processor in his PC contained the radioactive element "Pentium" and that if the chip encapsulation was damaged he could become sterile....
As a scientist I rather like the rigo(u)r of IUPAC-naming conventions - and will forgive them "Sulfur" and "Aluminum".