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The chemical compounds, for instance, are phosphorous this or that. (If you speak a romance language, it jumps out at you because the adjective has an extra sy
by ableal 12y ago
The chemical compounds, for instance, are phosphorous this or that.
(If you speak a romance language, it jumps out at you because the adjective has an extra syllable - e.g. 'fosforo' vs. 'fosforoso'.)
- waqf 12y agoThat's true of phosphorous acid (where the name distinguishes it from phosphoric acid), but otherwise English chemical names use the noun form of the positive ion (e.g. phosphorus pentoxide).