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
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(Barclay shunter Meaford No 1 (no TOPS class) at Embsay, 30 Apr 2005)
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