I was just thinking about the vocabulary of chemistry where
even the ending of an adjective has meaning. For example,
sulfurous means valence 4 while sulfuric means valence 6.
Not that I even remember what that means.
Nathan Alter lives in Albuquerque with his wife and kids. He currently develops in C#/.NET, but is learning all the time and has enjoyed computers since programming in Basic on an Atari 400 as a teenager. He started blogging in 1999.
I was just thinking about the vocabulary of chemistry where
even the ending of an adjective has meaning. For example,
sulfurous means valence 4 while sulfuric means valence 6.
Not that I even remember what that means.