atw: Re: I just googlewhacked with antineologist

The term "googol" had a brief vogue in mathematical circles a few 
decades back. (10 to the power 100.) No, the inventor was not a 
Russian.


> 'Petrol' and 'Kerosene' came into Australian English
> as trademarked product names early last century, and they stayed.  The
> UK uses 'parrafin' for kerosene and the US uses 'gasoline' for petrol.

I have a recollection that chemists prefer "kerosine" (OD alternative), 
on the grounds that the -ene suffix is used for a range of pure organic 
compounds (methylene, ethylene, propylene, ...) and kerosine is a 
mixture.


James Hunt

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