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Weird Names...
Are there any weird names you've heard of for chemicals, or weird names you call chemicals?
For example- There is a carboxilyic acid that's called moronic acid, really. Also, I call potassium hexacyanidoferrate III potassium ferricyanide. It
isn't that wierd for older chemists... but for me, being 14, you almost always hear chemists of similar age saying the long way...
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My favourite is diethyl diazocarboxylate, which is known as "DEADCAT".
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I find it somewhat amusing that the compound known as "theobromine" does not actually contain any bromine atoms. The formula is: C7H8N4O2
The compound known as "nickel peroxide" is actually nickel dioxide. Whereas barium peroxide was once commonly referred to as "barium
dioxide".
And KClO4 is referred to as perchlorate, although it does not contain any oxygen-oxygen bonds.
For chains of three oxygen atoms there is also inexplicable naming. H2O3 is known as dihydrogen trioxide, whereas when there are organic groups
instead of the two hydrogen atoms, such compounds are known as ozonides. But KO3 is also an "ozonide". So apparently the chain of
three oxygen atoms is more important for the naming than the actual oxidation states.
A good name was never given to ferrate(VI) or to the unstable ferrate (VIII), presumably because "ferrate" is so common and has come to mean iron in
the +3 oxidation state, for example the solid compound NaFeO2. Sometimes when different oxidation states are discovered much later, it can play havok
on the naming systems already established.
The explosive known as tetrazene was previously referred to in the old literature as "tetracene". But the word "tetracene" has now come to
refer to the four-ringed aromatic hydrocarbon also known as naphthacene.
The compound known as potassium triiodide contains I3[-] ions, whereas the structure of "nitrogen triiodide" is completely different. Actually, to be
more technically accurate, NI3 should be known as triiodine nitride. In any case, the substance commonly known as "nitrogen triiodide"
actually has the composition NI3*NH3, which exists in polymerized chains.
Whereas the triiodide ion is named directly after its element, N3[-] has its own name, the azide ion, rather than "trinitride".
Why is KO2 known as superoxide rather than "dioxygenide"?
Then there are the "fulminating" compounds, which include a variety of different metal salts, but which should not be confused with the
fulminates, which contain the CNO[-] anion.
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A zwitterion is a molecule with an anion and cation!
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Since this is a science forum, I want to bring to your attention that "Tightness of a classical Wiener space" and "Classical Wiener measure" are terms that actually make sense in the field of mathematics.
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Don't forget putrescine and cadaverine, which smell just like you would expect them to smell.
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Quote: Originally posted by ScienceHideout  | Are there any weird names you've heard of for chemicals, or weird names you call chemicals?
For example- There is a carboxilyic acid that's called moronic acid, really. |
Silly me, I thought you were taking us for a bunch of morons, but you really are correct on that one.
I always liked the NanoPutians:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jo0349227
J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68 (23), pp 8750–8766
DOI: 10.1021/jo0349227
and as they mentioned, “housane” and “buckminsterfullerene” which both refer to complex 3 dimensional molecules which look like a house and a
geodesic sphere ( or a soccer ball, so if someone who played soccer had made it it might have been "soccerane" or 'footballane" if outside the US)
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Reminds me of This. Apparently zwitter means hermaphrodite
Speaking of Rammstein, benzene
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And spermine which has a strong smell of fresh semen.
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Here's one to win against all the others:
The relatively obscure Vestic acid (D-01988) has both a cis- and trans- form. The deoxy derivitive could
plausibly be named "vestous" acid. Like any acid, the compound forms salts.
Yes, that is correct; sodium trans-vestite. 
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Two days and nobody mentioned the SillyMols website? I am disappointed.
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm
Posted before on this forum:
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=13...
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=10...
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=64...
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=15...
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HA, Thebacon
That's hilarious.
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Lol... Uranate Uranium Oxides
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Here is another one: (2,2,6,6-Tetramethyl-piperidin-1-yl)oxyl = TEMPO
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPO
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsole
is my favourite, but there's a whole bunch of them here
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm
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Here's one:
Sulphuretted hydrogen (an archaic name for hydrogen sulphide).
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Is that a free radical initiator by the name of (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxidanyl? (what a tongue twister!  )
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Theobromine, an alkaloid.
Its name is a bit of a misnomer, since it does not actually contain any Br atoms.
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How about :
DEAD (Diethyl azodicarboxylate).
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Very Fast Death Factor (Anatoxin A)
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CuNT. Copper nitrotetrazolate
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"Vomitoxin"
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"methylene chloride"
O3
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Is that anything to do with the guy who put a cat in a box with a time release of poison gas.?
He hypothasised that the cat was both dead & alive. not knowing when the gas would be released, he wouldn't know for sure if either was the
actual fact at the time. (hope that made sense) MM
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Is that supposed to be a Heisenberg joke?
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