doctorspike

@doctorspike@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a PhD candidate in chemistry. I’ve never once seen sodium refer to the salt, sodium chloride. Sodium is the metallic form or the atom.

  However, why sodium, tungsten, lead, antimony, tin, silver, gold, mercury, iron, and potassium and not their Latin forms? Natrium, wolfram, plumbum, stibium, stannum, argentum, aurum, hydrargyrum, Ferrum and kalium? I don’t really know. Mostly it’s just fun trivia for me to tell the undergrads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people look at sunsets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me you live in a city without telling me you live in a city.

  But srsly it’s because it’s beautiful and unique every time. And the sun is below the horizon when we are looking