Archive for the ‘Chemistry’ Category

What you call this? Linguistic morphology of chemical names and lost in translation

Here is a real world example how Linguistic morphology of chemical names may have unwanted secondary effects For example, English search engines such as Google and Yahoo! are unable to find “chlorobenzene” by searching for “benzene”. Interestingly, in other languages [...]


An aromatic hybrid space between Organic and Inorganic

For more than 100 years Chemistry of compounds is either defined as Organic or Inorganic. Benzene (C6H6, discovered by Faraday in 1825) is one of the most fundamentally significant small molecules in Organic chemistry. Benzene has been used as a [...]