Best Molecular Names EVER - ---

[DS1]

Cummingtonite - ((Mg,Fe)7Si8(OH)22) - magnesium-iron silicate hydroxide, from Cummington, Mass, where it was first identified

Fukalite (Ca4Si206(CO3)(OH,F))2 - a rare form of calcium silicocarbonate mined in the Fuka region of Japan

Fucitol (L-fuc-ol/1-deoxy-D-galactitol) - an alcohol derived from Fucus vesiculosis, a North Atlantic seaweed.

Dickite (Al2Si2O5(OH)4) - a clay-like material with a number of manufacturing uses, one of which is as a coating for high-quality bond paper. Named after its discover, Dr. W. Thomas Dick

Arsole (C4H5As) - a form of azole, in which an arsenic atom replaces the nitrogen atom. Such a replacement in a benzene ring, where the arsenic atom replaces a carbon atom, is known as benzarsole

[MercutioATC]

1. Holy shit! Those are real names!

I thought it was a joke. Google proved me wrong.

[DS1]

2. Yeah

I triple checked :wow:

[GOPisEvil]

3. *chuckle*

Nice...:thumbsup:

I could use some Fucitol right now. :eyes:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

4. Buckminsterfullerene

Bucky balls, bucky balls.... :woohoo:

[The White Tree]

5. Here's a couple

WARFARIN
2-UNDECENE
STROBANE
STIGMASTANE
PREGNANE
NORBORNANE
NALED
DIQUAT

Not sure what they does but I'd hate to be a Stigmastane

[youthere]

7. I heard you can go blind

from STROBANE...and grow hair on the palms of your hands too.

[billyskank]

6. I know where you can find large quantities of arsole

It's certainly not in short supply!

[redqueen]

8. hehe

Cute...

[DS1]

15. eh, not cute

real

really!

[redqueen]

16. And cute!

I know they're real... seeing them altogether like that made me think of little kids giggling in chemistry class... or grown kids, for that matter. :D

[Squeech]

9. Reminds me

of the old joke about several Massachusetts towns named after former governors... "Peabody," "Marblehead," and "Athol."

[Kraklen]

10. Molecules with silly or unusual names...

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

[Der Blaue Engel]

12. "A sample of pyroxmangite, with white pieces of cummingtonite

visible toward the lower left."



:o :silly:

[norml]

11. Polyethylene Glycol: It's that special ingredient in Dr. Pepper

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[Kraklen]

13. Hmm. Polyethylene glycol's an osmotic laxative.

I wonder if that's where the prune theory came from.

[slutticus]

14. Skatole

[terrya]

17. Oh, dear....

:-)

[Shredr]

18. Tee-hee

I guess I'm magnesium-iron silicate hydroxide. (Sorry, I had to.)