• Question: hello again! what is the longest scientific word you know?

    Asked by mrohyeah to Charlie on 15 Mar 2011.
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      Charlie Ryan answered on 15 Mar 2011:


      hi again! there are lots of chemicals we use as the propellents for our thrusters and these have really long names. What about 1-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium-bis-(trifluoromethylsulphonyl) imide??
      Kind of cheating though as its a chemical name and these are often pretty long!!

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