You may not be confused or curious. But Curious Chloride is a radioactive salt that exists.It is CmCl4 It gets its namel from Curium the metal named after Madam Curie.
Similarly you may sometimes wrongly think that Titanic was made of Titanium.But if you are thinking of Titanic Chloride TiCl4,your thinking would be right.
Don't lose your nose,but Nonose is also a rare sugar like glucose and fructose.It has Nine Carbon atoms in its chain and also has a family of compounds under it.Imagine a nonose family!
Even if the bearded bard said famously " what's in a name?"It should be pronounced differently sometimes.Periodic Acid is not the way you think you should say.You need to say it as Per -Iodic Acid..just like perchlroric Acid.
NUN may not be always NUN.It can also be the structure of Uranium Nitride
But then let your imaginations not go over the top .Ammonia Avenue will remain the famous album of Alan Parsons project.
In the mercurial haze of obscurity and uncertainity.Hg is the not the planet but the chemical element, Mercury.Mercury is the only strange liquid metal and it ihas a stranger symbol Hg. It is like a Hug without u.
Dont laugh alpha particles or Helium Atoms..He He He but when you may also try saying NNO or N2O which will surely make you laugh since it is Laughing Gas!
Latst but not the least there is nothing erotic about orotic acid which is often mispronounced as erotic acid.It is just Vitamin B13!
© Avik Datta Gupta