Cummingtonite

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• ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m more a fan of “that one fused 7 and 6 memebered ring diazacycle that has that guanidine sorta thing going on that people use as a strong base when their molecule is too much of a pussy to handle a real base, shit, the fuck is it called… a oops shit it’s not guanidine, the fuck is the nitrogen version of an ester called, yeah that”, personally.

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  • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That description totally nails.

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wed rather deal with the structure itself tbh.

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Geoscientist here. I concur. The names are punny sometimes (this example in particular), but usually non-descriptive. Exceptions for the super common things (quartz, pyrite) when used in a discussion where the chemistry is irrelevant in that specific context. Conversely, we generally don’t care about the chemistry when talking about “clays” in geophysics, so defining them chemically would become noise to the reader.

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• Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don´t know anything about chemistry and even I know that iupac is a strength, not weakness. I also have a tendency to take memes too seriously though :)

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