• Question: What is the longest Scientific word you know?

    Asked by redfox007 to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Spectrophotometry

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      It’s probably the name of some chemical. Methylmethacrylate (a component in plastics) is the first one that comes to mind.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Yeah, just look at the ingredients in the nearest bottle of shampoo!
      I’m going to say deoxyribonucleic (acid). Any idea what that is?

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