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Letter: Breaking the bond so common it has no name

Published 17 May 2017

From Luce Gilmore, Cambridge, UK

James Mitchell Crow discusses the carbon-hydrogen bond (29 April, p 37). Other entities have names, like carbonyl and sulphydryl, but CH is only ever named by its component atoms. This seems rather a conspicuous omission. Is it that it's just too commonplace to be named, in the same way that there is no name for a person with only one nose?

Issue no. 3126 published 20 May 2017

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