Nomenclature - Crash Course Chemistry #44
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There are some of you out there, taking chemistry, and feeling a little bit like there's an international body whose job is simply to make your life more difficult, to force you to cram tons of information into your head, to suck all the wonder and excitement out of learning about how the world works at this beautiful, fundamental level of chemicals. You are not actually imagining this. That organization actually exists. It's called the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists or IUPAC, and really, they’re looking out for your best interests, in just the same way that my mom was looking out for my best interests when she said that I couldn’t go to the “Violent Femmes” concert with Megan Cross. And yeah, I hated my mom for, like, a...
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There are some of you out there, taking chemistry, and feeling a little bit like there's an international body whose job is simply to make your life more difficult, to force you to cram tons of information into your head, to suck all the wonder and excitement out of learning about how the world works at this beautiful, fundamental level of chemicals. You are not actually imagining this. That organization actually exists. It's called the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists or IUPAC, and really, they’re looking out for your best interests, in just the same way that my mom was looking out for my best interests when she said that I couldn’t go to the “Violent Femmes” concert with Megan Cross. And yeah, I hated my mom for, like, a...
