Holy fucking shit. I almost was exposed to a swear word on the Internet by some asshole cunt. That bitch didn’t know it’s fucking illegal to swear on the Internet. Thank fucking god someone put a box over it so it’s only heavily implied making me entirely safe from the scary-as-fuck word and distracted me from the area by circling the punchline that I would have never seen without it. I was about to shit a brick.
fuck
i th1nk you a¢¢id*ntally left s0me swær word$ in th€re, it’d be £est to cens0r them
See, I’m a chemist, but I also believe in the power and importance of organized labor, so I still read that as unionized.
Plus, I think most chemists would say “neutral” or use protonated/deprotonated rather than un-ionized
Also un-ionized as a hyphen (which you used when writing it) and unionized doesn’t. Which is probably why you, and most chemists, would read it as unionized as well.
It does get legitimately used both ways. In a chemistry textbook, seeing it written as “unionized” is pretty common, and wiktionary says that the hyphenated form is predominantly used in contexts where it might be confused with “having a union” (which matches with my experience).
However, I still assert that it’s just not a word chemists use that much as there are other, less ambiguous synonyms available.
I’ve only ever heard chemists say de-ionized, not un-ionized
Holy blue rectangle, Batman!
Guess I’m more of a plumber than a chemist.
To be fair, I’m sure most of us have done way more plumbing than chemistry…
onion eyes’d
where i live plumbers tend to be independent business owners, got the feeling a different trade would have worked better
