Whoever designed that image should have to return the Fe they were paid.
That’s some expensive cereal…
Probably cheap compared to that Kashi stuff.
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
Yeah, my good buddy is from Genovia, where they use a regional version of the periodic table with more human-friendly names. They use Ca for calcium, Ir for iron, Hy for hydrogen, and Ox for oxygen. This change was their answer to the metric system—a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.
Back in the 1960s, Gennovia was looking to bolster its local industry and economy. The government decided that simplifying scientific terms would help more people get into science and technology fields. It seems to be working because their literacy rates in science are through the roof? Somehow. They even have Ni for nickel and Si for silver, making it so much easier to remember what’s what. I didn’t know it was prevalent enough that it made its way onto package branding tho. Interesting stuff.
Can confirm Genovia doesn’t a fuck about IUPAC and its naming conventions.
Do we know the root of the history behind this? Were there any genuine reasons or minds behind it or was it reactionaryism, plain and simple?
10/10 chain jerking
i’m jerking their chains🤣
a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.
everyone that speaks English…
well, we all know everyone who does science speaks english 🤷♀️
edit: /s
The term “oat start” makes me think of a bag of oats over one’s mouth making it impossible to start whatever they were gonna start. The meaning is enhanced by the stoppiness off the word sounds.
Scanning for Iridium.
Whenever abbreviations don’t make sense, you can safely assume it’s Latin.
What about tungsten or sodium?
Apparently tungsten is also known as Wolfram, so that’s the W. Sodium Na is from neo-latin.
It’s Na from Natrium (I have no idea why you even call it Sodium in English)
It’s called Sodium in English because an English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy discovered it & named it “Sodium” He was able to isolate it via separation of caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and therefore named it after the caustic soda “soda-ium”. A few years later, a German chemist (Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert) was able to isolate it and named it “Natronium” Just under a decade later, Jöns Jacob Berzelius coined the term “Natrium” as he felt the name “Natronium” was too lengthy to catch on.
As to exactly why the earlier term was not respected is likely due to nationalism. During the earlier 1800’s a lot of countries were desperately trying to take claim for various rapid advancements in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and medicine. Getting to have the name that “your guy” coined was largely bent around national pride.
This is medicine in a nutshell too. And not just abbreviations, but acronyms… for words in a language that no one uses. I hate it.
Well, what other language should be used? Latin is the language of science because there’s no way we’d ever agree on which alive language to use.
Um English? It’s the international language and language of research, though some may not like hearing that.
English is only the lingua franca for now, but that, as well as the English language, will inevitably change.
I didn’t say it was a bad system or that we need to change it: I said I hate it.
Fair enough haha
I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.
And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.
Ridiculous.
I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.
Oh, the irony. :D
Teferric pun!
It would have been even better, if I’d said:
“An excellent source of irony.”
But alas, I’m not that witty on the spot. :-P
Iridium quality cereal? ConcernedApe is so good to us!
It’s hard to make though. You have to harvest Iridium quality Wheat and mine for Iridium bars and then build the Advanced Cereal Irradiator on your farm to craft it.
It’s hard to do until year 2.
Fe
Of course that’s iron. What, is that a Latin root or something?
It’s latin for Female Iron. Remember everything was gendered in the world of Romantic Romans
If they put “Fe” on it, too many people would boycott it for gendering the cereal.
Yup, ferrum is the Latin word.
Good thing I speak French, it won’t ever get me confused. In French, iron is called “fer”. Also, copper is “cuivre”, which also matches its periodic table symbol of Cu. Same can be said for lead: “plomb”.
Unfortunately, there’s quite a few that also don’t match the symbol, some aren’t even in English. I always hated how nitrogen is called “azote” in French.
Azides are nitrogen compounds though, so still usefully to know.
I’m glad I know this now.
If they put the correct symbol there it would read café
Your number one source of Iridium and Californium! Over 10,000,000 calories in each bite!
Quickly, you only have .0001 seconds to enjoy your Californium!
Not to be too pedantic, but Californium is Cf
It’s what? I can’t hear you
man = male, iron = Fe > __________
Feman
And the Masters of the Universe!!
In Old English, the two people married were known as ‘husband’ and ‘huswif,’ so maybe we need to go with heman and sheman from now on.
