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Ok then! Truly impressive that chemists carry around such a store of jargon.
by superposeur 5y ago
Ok then! Truly impressive that chemists carry around such a store of jargon.
- gilleain 5y agoWell at least they've moved on from the days of alchemy where the tendency was to make up your own notation and jargon to obscure what you actually did :)
- mattkrause 5y agoIt might help to know these names are formed systematically. URIs can also look inscrutable, but make more sense once you know how to break them down into scheme://user@host:port/path Chemical names (mostly) work the same way. There are a fair number of rules and concepts, but once you understand them, the endless names map onto structures pretty cleanly[0]. Here are some of them: http://www.chem.uiuc.edu/GenChemReferences/nomenclature_rules.html http://www.chem.uiuc.edu/GenChemReferences/nomenclature_rule... [0] Mostly. There are some historical exceptions. Acetone should be called something like 2-propanone, for example, but...it isn't.
- shadilay 5y agoMost common chemicals are exceptions to IUPAC naming.