Latintos

Latintos stands for "language transformations in texts and open sources." The LATINTOS BLOG highlights different spellings and different meanings of words, phrases and abbreviations as well as their origin. Latintos compares words in different contexts and different languages including scientific and formal languages. Further, name construction is analyzed and applications of systematic names and nomenclature systems are monitored.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Acronym in materials science: LAMOX for lanthanum molybdenum oxide

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In chemistry and materials science, the term LAMOX stands for lanthanum molybdenum oxide . In particular, the name LAMOX refers to a materi...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Fresno, the Spanish word for ash tree on maps of Upper California (Alta California)

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Fresno is the Spanish word for ash tree . This word is found in geographical names identifying locations in Upper California ( Alta Califor...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Acronym in chemistry: ROY for red, orange and yellow, designating a polymorph-model compound

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The organic compound with the common name ROY is 5-methyl-2-[(2-nitrophenyl)amino]-3-thiophenecarbonitrile (C 12 H 9 N 3 O 2 S, see molec...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Ikaite, a mineral named after the Ika Fjord in southwest Greenland

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The mineral ikaite is named after the Ika Fjord , now spelled Ikka Fjord , in southwest Greenland. This fjord is about 12 km long and for...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Hazenite, a mineral named after earth scientist Robert M. Hazen

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Hazenite is a hydrous alkali magnesium phosphate with the formula KNaMg 2 (PO 4 ) 2 ·14H 2 O [1,2]. This mineral was discovered and descri...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Don't (mis)match Deutsch and Dutch!

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Drop the two letters e and s from the German word D e ut s ch and you get Dutch . This is what a Danish student of German did—according t...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Short notations for α-amino acids and peptides based on one-letter code (1LC)

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A three-letter code ( 3LC ) is typically applied to encode molecular structures that contain sequences of the proteinogenic amino acids . T...
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