RE: New contributions for WG2

At 18:45 +0100 2003-05-28, ngo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>In n2586.pdf I notice the following phrase.
>
>"ferrous iron sulphate"
>
>This appears to be a tautology.
>
>The metal iron when in metal salts can sometimes be ferrous 
>(tendency to pale green colour) or ferric (tendency to brown colour).
>
>There is a salt named ferrous sulphate.  The word ferrous implies 
>that it must be iron, yet gives more information about the 
>chemistry.  So, given the use of the word ferrous one would not use 
>the word iron.

The Swedish is "ferrohydrosulfat", so my use of "iron" is an error on 
my part. Ferrous hydrosulphate, I guess it is.
-- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/8FfwlB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: unicode-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This mailing list is just an archive. The instructions to join the true Unicode 
List are on http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html
 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/