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From wikipedia: "...including a family of glasses ZBLAN with a composition ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF." Which seems to make sense.
by sparsely 8y ago
From wikipedia: "...including a family of glasses ZBLAN with a composition ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF."
Which seems to make sense.
- baldfat 8y agoThat 100% does make seance BUT the author said Na is for Sodium which was made it not make sense to me.
- jacquesm 8y agoThey probably confused 'sodium' with 'salt' and missed the Natrium in NaCl. Apologies for linking to Quora: https://www.quora.com/Who-renamed-Natrium-and-Kalium-to-Sodium-and-Potassium-Why https://www.quora.com/Who-renamed-Natrium-and-Kalium-to-Sodi... If you want to explain an acronym that has its basis in the names of chemical elements you should probably use the same words the scientists that came up with the acronym used.
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- sparsely 8y agoThey said "sodium has the chemical symbol Na" which is completely true, if intuitive.
- tigershark 8y agoNa is the chemical symbol for sodium because natrium is the Latin name.
- sfifs 8y agoNa is the chemical symbol for sodium. What's strange in the statement?