Same with silver (Ag) and gold (Au). Comes from the Latin words argentum and aurum.
And iron! Ferrous, I think, but double check that
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Proud to say my language always called sodium and potassium correctly
in dutch you still say natrium and kalium and wolfram
I just think it makes more sense
(also I always mix up sodium and potassium because of this)
Humans, with a genome of 3.2 billion base pairs, have conquered every corner of the planet and walked on the moon.
Tmesipteris oblanceolata, with a genome of 160.45 billion base pairs, is a fern.
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Nah like
One of those plants that shoots spores
Those, unfortunately, only have 4.5 gigabases. Which is still pretty huge
The pea genome was also apparently a huge pain in the ass to sequence
Scallops, somewhat uniquely among bivalves, have hundreds of eyes. All bivalves have the ability to distinguish light from shadow, but these eyes can actually form a blurry image.
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If not food, then why food shaped?
Scallops are edible.
Ik, but shells arent.
Edit: ngl I need to fry em up more.
Anything is edible
Well, eatable anyway
If you try hard enough
Question for you: is the moon cheese?
Well, we cannot say for certain. However, samples brought from the Moon have been decisively not dairy. Given our understanding of the Moon’s formation, we can deduce that, if the Moon were made of cheese, so too would the Earth. No study has shown that dairy makes up more than a trivial percentage of Earth’s mass.
Voltaire once joked that the Kremlin’s two greatest items were a bell[1] that had never been rung and a cannon[2] that had never been fired.
Russians must’ve been hella smug after Napoleon
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