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What would you name Hydrogen and Oxygen?
by snapcaster 2y ago
What would you name Hydrogen and Oxygen?
- NeoTar 2y agoInverting the names makes sense. Wikipedia: Oxygen > Lavoisier renamed 'vital air' to oxygène in 1777 from the Greek roots ὀξύς (oxys) (acid, literally 'sharp', from the taste of acids) and -γενής (-genēs) (producer, literally begetter), because he mistakenly believed that oxygen was a constituent of all acids. Hydrogen comes from ‘water’, which contains hydrogen and oxygen. So, since all acids must have Hydrogen, Oxygen is actually a better name for Hydrogen. This then leaves the name Hydrogen free for Oxygen.
- breck 2y agoGreat question. Singtium and Octium, perhaps.
- dredmorbius 2y agoWasserstoff and Sauerstoff, obv.