In a bid to be less serious...

[aumentou]

I give you an answer to the question: What do you call (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2 ?

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[musichalldiva.livejournal.com]

Knock yourself out on THIS site! :-)
I particularly amused by Ca4Si2O6(CO3)(OH,F)2.

[morecake.livejournal.com]

Can't look it up :-( What was it?

[ceehoss.livejournal.com]

:0) Couldn't believe it wasn't an April Fools!

[morecake.livejournal.com]

In my Carry On infected brain, I read that and then immediately hear Kenneth Williams shouting 'frying tonight!' in Carry On Screaming :-)

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[musichalldiva.livejournal.com]

Oops. sorry, You shold never have missed my lecture on this! :-)
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

[musichalldiva.livejournal.com]

When I get to the bit about the ORF of Fucose - Kinase, I can barely get the words out! :-) - Like the scene in 'Porky's' - Why DO they call her Lassie?

Fucitol

Although this sounds like what an undergraduate chemist might exclaim when their synthesis goes wrong, it's actually an alcohol, whose other names are L-fuc-ol or 1-deoxy-D-galactitol. It gets its wonderful trivial name from the fact that it is derived from the sugar fucose, which comes from a seaweed found in the North Atlantic called Bladderwrack whose latin name is Fucus vesiculosis. Interestingly, there are a few articles in the Journal of 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!

I refuse , absolutely, to grow up, EVER!