Whoever designed that image should have to return the Fe they were paid.
Iridium quality cereal? ConcernedApe is so good to us!
Whenever abbreviations don’t make sense, you can safely assume it’s Latin.
This is medicine in a nutshell too. And not just abbreviations, but acronyms… for words in a language that no one uses. I hate it.
Well, what other language should be used? Latin is the language of science because there’s no way we’d ever agree on which alive language to use.
Oh, the irony. :D
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
Fe
Of course that’s iron. What, is that a Latin root or something?
Yup, ferrum is the Latin word.
Good thing I speak French, it won’t ever get me confused. In French, iron is called “fer”. Also, copper is “cuivre”, which also matches its periodic table symbol of Cu. Same can be said for lead: “plomb”.
Unfortunately, there’s quite a few that also don’t match the symbol, some aren’t even in English. I always hated how nitrogen is called “azote” in French.
Azides are nitrogen compounds though, so still usefully to know.
man = male, iron = Fe > __________
Feman
In Old English, the two people married were known as ‘husband’ and ‘huswif,’ so maybe we need to go with heman and sheman from now on.
