Monday, April 4, 2011

Neodymium

Ok, you may have already read about this on my most recent facebook status update... but I really am totally shocked. How can I, being a chemist of at least 5 years (and really longer, it just took me a bit to figure it out), have been saying an element name wrong my whole life????

Neodymium.... not neodinium.

I guess it's not too unreasonable because we usually use the symbols instead of the whole names. Especially when that name is as long as neodymium.

I really cannot express my disbelief.

It's gonna take me a bit to get over this. I kind of feel like a fraud.


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