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It looks intimidating but there's a very much countable set of possible sub-units that makes up those words.

With enough organic chem experience, pronouncing and grokking structure from a name becomes second nature.

In my head it immediately becomes chopped up into understandable units: "di phenyl methyl sulfinyl acetamide"




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