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shroom on Nov 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Break in the Quest for the Quantum Speed Limit

Say it after me tetramethyltetrathiafulvalenes!

This is the current winner of strangest material name I’ve read. Anyone who can top it?

AllegedAlec on Nov 27, 2018 [–]

Arsole

Cummintonite

Rhamnetin

And that's before getting into biological molecules, which sometimes have names like Sonic Hedgehog or Pikachuin.

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