C 11H 9N 3O 2), a vasoprotective drug. The NAFTA free-trade zone is the area covered by the North American Free Trade Agreement. [38] These spooky sounding molecules both have structures which wrap around and enclose metal atoms, such as cobalt, in a coffin-like cage. Hence their names.

Vomicine (left) is a poisonous molecule that gets its name from the nut Nux Vomica, which is the seed of a tree found on the coasts of the East Indies. The seeds are sometimes called 'Quaker buttons', and are a source of strychnine as well as the emetic vomicine. Similarly, vomitoxin (right) is a toxin that's produced by certain types of fungus that grow on wheat and barley. Its proper name is deoxynivalenol, but was given the trivial name vomitoxin because it caused vomiting in pigs that had eaten contaminated wheat. It must be pretty gross to make even a pig vomit... This ridiculously named molecule is found in cotton seeds. It was used as a male contraceptive in China, but was never used in the West (and may have since been banned in China as well), since its effects were permanent in about 20% of patients! Its name originated from being present in the flowers of the Indian cotton plant Gossypium herbaceum L. Apart from its contraceptive effects, gossypol has properties that might make it useful in treating a number of ailments, including cancer, HIV, malaria and some bacterial/viral illnessness. Related to this molecule are the equally strangely named gossypetin and gossypin. I always thought 'gossypin' was frowned upon in polite labs... This molecule sounds better if it's hyphenated (but-anal), but it is actually quite a common aldehyde. This mineral gets its 'enigmatic' name from the fact that its chemical composition was originally difficult to determine. It is an iron and titanium silicate with sodium as a charge balancing cation, although because it does not easily fit into the current classification system, it is classified as an 'Unclassified Silicate'. And on a related theme, I've been told of an Aryl Selenide compound with the superb shorthand of ArSe, which is both toxic and smelly. The paper it comes from in J. Am. Chem. Soc. was published by authors from, of course, the University of Aarhus! I've been told that it's possible to make molecules with Se-Se bonds, so if ArSe is bonded to a selenium halide (with X representing Br, Cl, etc), then it's possible to make ArSe-SeX. I'll leave this as a challenge to synthetic chemists to first try to make this compound, and then to try to get its name in the title of a paper!Thanks to Victoria Barclay of Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Toronto, for providing the info on this molecule. More info: Tet. Letts. 39 (1998) 2357. An anthracycline antibiotic agent named after the character Rodolfo (Rudolph) in La Bohème. [18] [19] Compound Crazy” was one of the hottest toy trends of the year announced by The Toy Association at Toy Fair New York in February. Read on for some product examples that will be exciting and delighting kids all year long: This mineral must have the silliest name of them all! Its official name is magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, and it has the formula (Mg,Fe) 7Si 8O 22(OH) 2. It got its name from the locality where it was first found, Cummington, Massachusetts, USA. Despite having a ridiculous name, the molecule is quite ordinary. It gets its name from being both a constituent of Aniba Megaphylla roots and a ketone.

Thanks to Kay Brower for suggesting propellane, and to Martin A. Iglesias Arteaga from the University of Havana, Cuba for suggesting cubane. Thanks also to Mark Minton for suggesting the other list of geometrical molecules. First reference for propellane: J. Altman , E. Babad, J. Itzchaki, D. Ginsburg , Tetrahedron, Suppl. 8(1), (1966) 279. Recent state testing in the lower Plaquemines parish has shown a spike in two groups of compounds that result from the water disinfection process. The EPA has stated that long-term exposure to these groups of chemicals carries an increased risk of cancer. Thanks to Adrian Davis of Pfizer Global Research & Development for providing the info on these molecules, and to Iain Fenton for suggesting windowlene. All through the summer, residents were alarmed by the water’s condition. “At times, our water would smell like sewage,” said Catherine Vodopija, who was born and raised in lower Plaquemines. “It would bleach our clothes. It would come out foggy and have fumes coming out of the glass … It smelt chemical, like gas and diesel. It was petrifying.”With its existence first hypothesized in the 1970s, dark matter set the stage to explain the mysterious movements of many objects being pulled in its gravitational field—like galaxies which seemed to miraculously escape the gravitational pull of the larger galaxy cluster to which they belonged. No, these aren't the favourite compound of the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, but are in fact a type of mesoionic compound. These are ring structures in which the positive and negative charge are delocalised, and which cannot be represented satisfactorily by any one polar structure. They got their name when Huisgen called them after the city Munich (München), after similar compounds were called sydnones after Sydney. Thanks to Terry Frankcomb of the University of Queensland, Australia for suggesting this molecule, and to Professor Juan Murgich of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Caracas, for providing a correct structure.

Boyer said water test results in Port Sulphur are just what he’d expect from seawater entering a water system. And according to Boyer, the parish’s temporary solution – blending in fresh river water to mix with the seawater – “is creating some very ideal conditions” for increased levels of disinfection byproducts. ‘I would not be drinking that water’ Buras, Louisiana, sits directly next to the Mississippi River, where encroaching saltwater has made the tap water in the area unsafe for drinking. Photograph: Bryan Tarnowski Although this sounds like what an undergraduate chemist might exclaim when their synthesis goes wrong, it's actually an alcohol, whose other names are For a frame of reference, dark matter makes up about 27 percent of the observable universe, but observable matter only comprises 5 percent of our universe. About 68 percent of the universe is “ dark energy,” a mysterious, elusive energy.

Prelog, V., Seiwerth, R. (1941). "Über eine neue, ergiebigere Darstellung des Adamantans". Berichte. 74 (11): 1769–1772. doi: 10.1002/cber.19410741109. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Orthocarbonic acid is made of one carbon atom bonded with four hydroxy groups and has the chemical formula H 4CO 4 or C(OH) 4. The acid is a hypothetical, highly unstable compound that would On 19 October, the parish lifted a drinking water advisory for these lower regions that have gone almost four months without potable water, but within hours was forced to issue a boil water advisory due to a drop in pressure. The trivial name for some curium compounds can be either curous or 'curious', so curium trichloride becomes curious chloride. However the only

Biochemistry throughout 1997 concerning a kinase enzyme which acts on fucose. The creators of these articles were Japanese, and seemed to have missed the fact that fucose kinase should not be abbreviated as ' fuc-K'. Similarly, the E. coli K-12 Gene has other proteins that have been named Fuc-U and Fuc-R. Recently, the abbreviation for fucose-kinase enzyme has been cleaned up to 'FUK'. However, there are now clones of this where the cloning position in the DNA sequence is labelled by its Open Reading Frame (ORF) number. And of course, these clones are called FUK ORF! Many residents of the Port Sulphur district have indeed not been drinking the tap water since June due to its saltiness – but THMs are also readily absorbed through skin, and inhaled as steam during warm showers. By some estimates, exposure from just a 10-minute shower is roughly equivalent to drinking 2.5 liters (0.66 gallons) of water. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v May, Paul (28 May 2013). "Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names". Bristol University . Retrieved 1 November 2013. No, this isn't the world's best aphrodisiac. Its correct name is orotic acid, but it has been misspelt so often in the chemical literature that it is also known as erotic acid! Another name for it is vitamin B13. Apparently, if you add another carbon to it, it becomes homo-erotic acid... This means that about 5 percent of our universe can actually be seen and detected using observation of the actual substance itself. It can only be perceived by its effect on the tiny sliver of the universe we can see. This makes dark matter one of the strangest substances detected by modern science.

Experts agreed that the most recent spike in disinfection byproducts was probably triggered by the saltwater intrusion. This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)