Well, you might’ve heard foods with carbohydrates are sometimes referred to by the abbreviation “carbs". If you know carbs are food, it’s obvious the word starting in “carb-” is the edible one.
If you weren’t familiar with that abbreviation, here’s another memory helper: Spaghetti carbonara contains carbs.
If you’re also not familiar with spaghetti carbonara, I’m very sorry for you.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
one is food for animals, the other is food for cars
neidu2@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Yes, but which is which? Nothing in the name tells me whether it has oxygen in its chemical composition.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Well, you might’ve heard foods with carbohydrates are sometimes referred to by the abbreviation “carbs". If you know carbs are food, it’s obvious the word starting in “carb-” is the edible one.
If you weren’t familiar with that abbreviation, here’s another memory helper: Spaghetti carbonara contains carbs.
If you’re also not familiar with spaghetti carbonara, I’m very sorry for you.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
But spaghetti also needs water so wouldn’t that make it a hydrocarbonara?
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Don’t cars have carborators? Are carborators edible?
I don’t know anything about cars except they go vroom. I know even less about chemistry.
apolo399@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Carbohydrates are the ones with (H_2 O)_n
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
To hydrate means to add water. Hence a hydrate has OH2 added.
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 2 years ago
More generally, -ate itself means ‘with oxygen’.
Carbonate = carbon + oxygen
Nitrate = nitrogen + oxygen
Phosphate = phosphorus + oxygen
There is apparently some nuance but it is a good rule to remember: …stackexchange.com/…/when-to-use-ate-and-ite-for-…
Mango@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Oooohhhh, nice!