• Question: How do you come up with the molecule names?

    Asked by anon-242858 to Mairi on 10 Mar 2020.
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      Mairi answered on 10 Mar 2020:


      There are rules about naming molecules, so everyone calls them the same thing. It can get quite complicated though! When a new drug is developed the company that discovered it gives it a name- I know of one chemist who has a new drug named after him because he was the first person to make that molecule!

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