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February 12, 2004

Molecules with silly names "Here we'll show you some real molecules that have unusual, ridiculous or downright silly names" (one pic NSFW?)

posted by dhruva at 09:19AM UTC [trackback] (6 comments total)

Noooooooooo...
Cummingtonite gets my vote for best belly laugh.

posted by rustcellar at 09:43AM UTC on February 12, 2004

Torn between Sonic Hedgehog or George and Bi-George.

posted by beeswacky at 04:02PM UTC on February 12, 2004

Including Sonic hedgehog (Shh) seems a bit of a cheat. One could fill many pages with silly names from Drosophila genetics.

I want to compound George with Curious Chloride.

Someday I hope to read of a flavone extracted from the surface of gold teeth-- the flava-flavone. Until then, the image haunts me every time I read of a flavonoid.

posted by goetter at 06:01PM UTC on February 12, 2004

I like the bucky ball best.

posted by jb at 01:54AM UTC on February 13, 2004

I thought the bucky ball was from a censored "Get Fuzzy" comic...

posted by wendell at 02:04AM UTC on February 13, 2004

Fugghedabowdit.

posted by InsolentChimp at 11:58PM UTC on March 15, 2006

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