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The Hive => Chemistry Discourse => Topic started by: scarmani on April 15, 2002, 06:15:00 AM

Title: Chem Trivia?
Post by: scarmani on April 15, 2002, 06:15:00 AM

Well this is the general chemistry forum so I hazard that it's safe to ask an irrelevant question out of pure curious whim.

What the longest string of only capital letters (no lowercase, no subscripts) that corresponds to a valid, known, stable compound's formula?

(The longest I've seen is KSCN.  Any longer than that and it would look more like an acronym than a formula!)

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Title: Hmm....
Post by: MescalToad on April 16, 2002, 06:00:00 AM

HCOOH. (could be written as H2CO2 but oh well  :P )

Title: Indeed
Post by: PrimoPyro on April 16, 2002, 10:49:00 PM

How about CHDTCHO, or rather C(HDT)CHO, which is of course acetaldehyde, with two of the protons on the methyl group replaced, one with a deuteron, and the other with a triton.

                                                   PrimoPyro

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