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Phosphorous discovered in outskirts of the Milky Way
- dataspun 3y agoPhosphorus discovered. The noun, a chemical element.
- isoprophlex 3y agoNot just any regular old phosphorus, but extremely phosphorous phosphorus!
- labster 3y agoYou’ll be prosperous if you find phosphorous phosphorus in the Bosporus.
- mkii 3y agoPreposterous!
- datavirtue 3y agoReddit has entered the chat
- stevenjgarner 3y agoIt would be more preposterous to get prosperous finding phosphor in the Bosporus than finding phosphorous phosphorus
- benterix 3y agoI find your comments prephosphorous!
- theropost 3y agoYou should tell their boss-for-us.
- timcobb 3y agothough we live dangerous
- isoprophlex 3y agoWe're held like phosphorus
- beAbU 3y agoMaybe it's my non-native English letting me down here, but what other, non-noun, non-chemical element Phosphorous is there?
- sigmoid10 3y agoThe title is a typo. "Phosphorous" is an adjective. The correct noun is "phosphorus." The linked article uses it correctly, so only OP screwed up here.
- mkii 3y agoYet the article url's slug uses the adjective, but it's grammatically correct! "2023-11-phosphorous-outskirts-milky.html" And still yet, the article's diagram's caption does not use the correct word!! "Currently known Galactic distribution of phosphorous."
- Spare_account 3y agoThe title of the post (on Hackernews, above) has the spelling "Phosphorous" (with a U). This is the spelling of the Adjective (a describing word). It is a mistake in this context, because what has been discovered in the outskirts of the Milky Way is not a grammatical construct but rather a chemical element. The chemical element is spelled without the U (even in British English!): Phosphorus. https://grammarist.com/spelling/phosphorous-phosphorus/ https://grammarist.com/spelling/phosphorous-phosphorus/
- irrational 3y agoWell, at least I now know the word phosphorous exists.
- op00to 3y agoI am now replacing “cromulent” with “phosphorous”. As in “that is a perfectly phosphorous statement”.
- beAbU 3y ago
- jrflowers 3y agoMy bad
- AlDante2 3y agoWe know.
- Udo 3y agoThis is huge and potentially encouraging news for (biological) extraterrestrial life. Because P is so rare, the chemical options for complex organisms are very limited in vast stretches of space. Now that we observed it in the outer reaches, it doesn't seem as implausible that life could arise there. It'll be interesting to find out how it ended up so far out there. Maybe those clouds are sometimes more stable than we thought?
- laaaaea 3y ago[flagged]