Diabolic Acid and other Chemical Structures

By Queuebot in Science & Tech on Jan 30, 2009 at 2:42 am

What do Diabolic Acid, Moronic Acid, Traumatic Acid, Draculin, Spamol and Windowpane have in common?

They are all the names of real chemical compounds! For example:

Diabolic Acid

Diabolic acids are actually a class of compounds where the m and n chains can have different lengths and can contain unsaturation. They were named after the Greek diabollo, meaning to mislead, since they were particularly difficult to isolate using standard gas chromatography techniques. One of the inventors, Prof Klein, also thought that they had 'horns like the devil'.

From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by Lee.

Tags: chemical names, cummingtonite, molecule names

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Chris
Jan 30th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Not meaning to be a prude, but there is a nicely-shaped bum as a picture in the link. Not trying to start NSFW war but I think it would be prudent to add a tag, just in case.
Paul in Boca
Jan 30th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Windowpane acid had a different meaning for me back in the day.
Joe Miller
Jan 30th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
The page design is the best part.

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