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• loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But spaghetti also needs water so wouldn’t that make it a hydrocarbonara?

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    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aye, I stand defeated.

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    • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or a carbonarahydrate?

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have never herd of anyone eating a carburetor and dying, so we have to assume it’s safe to eat

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• apolo399@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Carbohydrates are the ones with (H_2 O)_n

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To hydrate means to add water. Hence a hydrate has OH2 added.

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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-…

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oooohhhh, nice!

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