Friday, September 30, 2011

The origin of the words barbecue, canoe, hammock, hurricane and tobacco

›
The words barbecue , canoe , hammock , hurricane and tobacco are said to have their roots in the culture of Taíno people , who spoke an Ar...
2 comments:
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Morse code, an alphabet of dots and dashes named after American painter and inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse

›
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) was an American history painter. After his hope, to be chosen to paint historic panels for the Rotunda of th...
1 comment:
Friday, September 16, 2011

Boxdyl: a moiety-in-the-box

›
Chemical drawings conceptually capture molecular substructures as well as supramolecular structural parts often within a box, omitting compo...
2 comments:
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Acronym in chemistry: BIBS for di-tert-butylisobutylsilyl, a protecting group

›
Di- tert -butylisobutylsilyl , abbreviated as BIBS , is a sterically bulk trialkylsily protecting group. BIBS is useful for protecting acidi...
Monday, September 12, 2011

BrettPhos, an organic compound and ligand named after Brett Fors of MIT's Buchwald Lab

›
BrettPhos is named after Brett Fors of  Stephen L. Buchwald's lab at MIT [1]. Spelling and pronunciation of this chemical compound nam...
Friday, September 9, 2011

Eponyms in ichthyology: Malacanthus plumieri, Sicydium plumieri, Haemulon plumieri

›
The tilefish Malacanthus plumieri (Malacanthidae), the Sirajo goby Sicydium plumieri (Gobiidae), and the white grunt Haemulon plumieri (H...

Sand tilefish, Malacanthus plumieri, named by German naturalist Marcus E. Bloch after French monk Charles Plumier

›
The Caribbean sand tilefish , Malacanthus plumieri (Malacanthidae), was in 1786 named by German naturalist Marcus E. Bloch after the Frenc...