Chemical Words List

An anonymous reader writes "Mark Nandor, a teacher of mathematics at The Wellington School, has recently posted a new chemical words page. For those who haven't seen this before, it is a list of English words that can be spelled using chemical symbols."

Re:Bumper sticker

[Anonymous Coward]

Physical chem is notoriously the hardest course in undergraduate chemistry.

Re:Aluminium? Caesium?

[damian cosmas]

Aluminium and Caesium are the correct IUPAC [iupac.org] spellings [qmul.ac.uk] of those elements for historical reasons.

Caesium [webelements.com] comes straight from the Latin caesius for the color sky blue, which is the most prominent line in the element's emission spectrum. Aluminium was so named because many elements at the time had -ium suffixes, and is the official spelling endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The American Chemical Society, however, uses "Aluminum".

Not So

[cagle_.25]

But close. Molecules like AlCl3 are frequently used as catalysts in certain organic reactions, and the entire class of organometallic compounds [ilpi.com] are exceptions to your rule.

But your overall point, that metals tend to be so electropositive that they form ionic bonds, is what I teach my 1st year chem students.