What's In Their Names Is In Spica And Pork Chops

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 00:03 in Physics & Chemistry

Since all matter including people consist of elements, it's nice to see proper names entirely composed of elemental symbols, like , or if you recall the actress who played the part of a sultry James Bond villain,, or if we stick to chemistry .  In the English language alone, there are also thousands of improper nouns with such properties (27192, to be exact), and of course someone wrote a program to generate an exhaustive list. read more

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