Whoever designed that image should have to return the Fe they were paid.
Oh, the irony. :D
Teferric pun!
Whenever abbreviations don’t make sense, you can safely assume it’s Latin.
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.
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.
Strange that ‘classics’ are taught mostly in the poshest schools. It’s rare for elites to want to preserve any power they have and make it inaccessible to oiks. /s
Can you give an eggsample?
Couple common ones… there are hundreds of these.
Acronym - Full Latin - English
PRN - pro re nata - as needed
NPO - nil per os - nothing my mouth
AC - ante cibum - before eating
OD - oculus dexter - right eye
OS - oculus sinister - left eye
Q8H - quaque octava hora - every 8 hours
QED
Etc
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.
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)
Everyone knows that iron, like all abbreviated four-letter nouns gets abbreviated as the first three letters.
Iro
Jun
FucSee? Easy peasy
Don’t you mean “Eas peasy” :P
Iroh, Junk, Fuc… uhhhh… Fucu fish? Fucy, a name like “Lucy” but absolute garbtrash?
… Yeah okay that one’s just “Fuck.” But let’s talk about Iroh anyway! He’s way cool.
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
Bröther
man = male, iron = Fe > __________
Feman
And the Masters of the Universe!!
I’ve swapped my genderrrrrr!!!
I HAVE THE POWER!!!
Male man
Love me some cereal fortified with Iridium
Something something Borderlands…
