Just got reminded about the dihydrogen monoxide thing and am

Bi- is to English as Di- is to Greek

that is too many burger

Oh, so chemical names have Greek origin, not Latin? There's fuckin weird.

Thanks.

>>8615502
because bi is gay

>>8615515
>weird
diabolic even

>>8615502
why is it mono and not uni?

>>8615508
Why is it called Bicarbonate?

>>8615502
nigga BI is "dual"
di means simply "two"

>>8615502
>two burgers
Can understand I often have two burgers myse-
>and a mcflurry
Crossing the line there buddy.

>>8616019
>mcflurry
nigga thats a sundae

>>8615524
Biabolic

>>8615623
Because it was discovered by English

>>8615502
Di- is Greek, Bi- is Latin
Mono- is Greek, Uni- is Latin

>>8616868
even worse

>>8616877
Patently false, bi is not from Latin
Bi and di are both Greek.


Latin for two is duo

>>8616904
duo is the single latin word for two, it's not a prefix dummy, and the person you're responding to is right. hydro is a greek word so we use the greek di as a prefix

>>8615623
Carbon comes from Latin, so we use the Latin bi
Hydro comes from Greek, so we use the Greek di

>>8615508
>English
You mean Latin.

>>8616904
>Patently false, bi is not from Latin
Never act smug when you're wrong.

>saying unophosphate instead of monophosphate

>>8615502
There's a lot of conventions you just take for granted and move on.

>>8616915
Dead language

>>8616933
>saying unophosphate
No you don't, wild draw tetra bitch